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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, October 12 2012 @ 02:33 PM EDT |
This cannot possibly work
Even if they do manage to get a law passed that every manufacturing devices
include such a capability, it's trivial to modify a physical object (and
therefor the plans to build it) in a way that is completely unnoticeable to even
careful inspection, but makes the plans not match the digital fingerprint.
if you are doing a sneaker, just move the logo 1/100 of an inch and the
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, October 12 2012 @ 04:03 PM EDT |
What will be the reward system when things can be duplicated trivially and at
will? Let us ignore the "end of poverty" train of thought for a
moment. How will society reward the smart or artistic creators of things that
get copied?
One could take the RIAA/MPAA position and prevent this from ever happening.
Just outlaw or brutally restrict copying devices. Myhrvold's invention fits in
here.
Humans have come from hunter-gatherers, through the stone age, bronze age,
industrial age, information age ... what next? The age of enforced poverty?
But back to the reward. Everything is copyable. What can you give someone who
can have almost everything already?
Fame.
Land.
Respect.
Potable water.
Access to breeding females.
First in line for new adventures, like space travel.
Something like the military, where every good mission is rewarded by a harder
and more dangerous job.
What else is there?
--
Bondfire
sorry to offend, i read about the assassination attempt on a 14 year old girl
that promotes girls going to school. i am very cynical today.
in the 1980s there was a book that brushed against this subject, Voyage to
Yesteryear by James Hogan
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, October 12 2012 @ 05:45 PM EDT |
| a patent for not paying ....how novel [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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