Long Now Media Update
March 8th, 02010 by Stewart Brand
Dot.Gov
Noveck began with the example of patents, first devised in Renaissance Florence and Venice to protect techniques such as glass manufacture. In England, conferring a monopoly on a tool or technique became a prerogative of the king. In contemporary America, the process of getting a 20-year monopoly on your invention from the US Patent Office is mired in a morass of litigation costs, a huge backlog, insufficient reviewers with insufficient science education, and what Noveck calls “an outmoded conception of expertise.”
Her revolutionary approach is to…
Read the rest of Stewart Brand’s Summary
This entry was posted on Monday, March 8th, 02010 at 2:15 pm and is filed under Long Now Announcements, Seminars. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
