January 28, 2004
WIRED: Stop Making Pills Political Prisoners.
Lawrence Lessig. Indeed, so long as inventions are protected by the monopoly rights we call patents, price discrimination is a brilliantly humane idea. It already works to some degree, of course, to save millions of lives. The hard question is, Why doesn't it work better?
Steven Johnson: Our Fragmented Web.
I find this to be one of those bizarro bits of conventional wisdom, where exactly the opposite is true. The reason we have so many filters and personalization tools is because the web has created a veritable Cambrian explosion of diversity, funneled directly to your home -- social, political, sexual, ethical, you name it.
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