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Thursday, May 23, 2002 |
In Hollywood Wants to Plug the 'Analog Hole', Cory Doctorow reveals key points of the "Content Protection Status Report" filed with the Senate Judiciay Committee by the MPAA ÷ a document that lays out the Evil Empire's Internet-destruction plans, which involve turning humble ADCs (Analog/Digital Converters) into content permission valves that would govern approximately the full range of "content" use.[Doc Searls Weblog]
Is anyone not clear on the effect of this, and similar, legislation. Let me spell it out: People will stop buying stuff. Technology will stop, is that what Hollywood wants? Hollycow!
10:25:31 PM 
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Silicon Valley Grows Up. Right now the most important story for Silicon Valley just may be in Washington, where the valley and Hollywood are fighting over the future of digital entertainment. By Claire Tristram.So the discourse is changing. Andy Grove, the chairman of Intel, will speak to anyone who will listen about the importance of the free market, which is the standard technolibertarian argument. But he now also acknowledges the valley as a powerful part of the mainstream economy and speaks of the fight as one mature industry against another. Why should the government, he asks, have to protect the movie industry from new technology?
[New York Times: Opinion]
10:23:21 PM
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A global economy, energized by technological change and unprecedented flows of people and money, collapses in the wake of a terrorist attack .... The year is 1914.
Excellent PBS Series on the global economy view in Quicktime. Or read the Book.
[Thanks Cesar Alsina of DiarioX for the link]
7:33:06 PM
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I just got my copy of A New Kind of Science. Don't expect a review soon, but I am dying to read it and start digesting it!
3:14:56 PM
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