Regulating technologies always poses a tradeoff, and in regulating new technologies that are platforms for innovation we cannot know ahead of time what innovations we will be foreclosing by regulating. This is as true for 3D printing as it is for commercial drones.
If you’ve ever considered choosing less income in order to have more leisure or a more fulfilling job, there’s been no better time to take the plunge. Not only will you not miss out on improvements to well-being from innovation, but a new breed of affordable luxury retailers can help narrow the gap between you and you’re high-income peers.
Many young people today may not do better than their parents, but they may well be better off.
Is a world without copyright’s “first sale” doctrine—in which you wouldn’t necessarily own your books outright, but instead might only be licensing them—really be so bad?
The White House’s “We the People” petition initiative got a big boost this week when it responded approvingly to a petition on cell phone unlocking, but what about all the other unanswered petitions waiting for a promised response for months?
A legal rathole looking at the Copyright Act’s requirement that all works published in the U.S. be deposited by the publisher in the Library of Congress—whether the publisher is seeking copyright or not. Is this a takings? A tax on speech? It’s unclear, but it’s surely a sign of how screwed up copyright law is.
European mores are incompatible with the digital era and will render the continent an Internet backwater,
Why introduce the word “Latino” into the English language when “Latin” is a perfectly good word that means the same thing, and anyway, what people really mean to say is Hispanic? Oh, that’s why.
The public has a penchant of demanding action, but not necessarily action that solves the problem. In the case of cybersecurity, what action Congress will take may be defined by special interests who have a greater incentive to fill in the details.
Conservatives, liberals, and libertarians have made common cause in the open government movement, each for different reasons. Libertarians believer that transparency will lead to limited government because the more people see the reality of their government, the more they will conclude that it’s too expensive and it does not work. That’s probably wrong.
