Permission From The Government Is An Expensive

I'm All For Experimenting With Sortition - Randomly Selected Representative Bodies Of Citizens. But I Don't Favor Direct Democracy. We're Busy. We Have Lives. There Is Reddit. Who Has Time To Work Out The Right Answer To The Thousand Policy Choices A Gov't Must Make All The Time?

The Crystal Ball Has A Question Mark In Its Center. There Are Some Fundamental Choices To Be Made. We Will Either Choose To Continue To Wage A Hopeless War To Preserve The Existing Architecture For Copyright By Upping The Stakes And Using Better Weapons To Make Sure That People Respect It. If We Do This, Public Support For Copyright Will Continue To Weaken, Pushing Creativity Underground And Producing A Generation That Is Alienated From The Copyright Concept.

A Time Is Marked Not So Much By Ideas That Are Argued About As By Ideas That Are Taken For Granted. The Character Of An Era Hangs Upon What Needs No Defense.

All Around Us Are The Consequences Of The Most Significant Technological, And Hence Cultural, Revolution In Generations.

Permission From The Government Is An Expensive Commodity. New Ideas Rarely Have This Kind Of Support. Old Ideas Often Have Deep Legislative Connections To Defend Them Against The New.