In the case of digital rights, an effective compromise means fair use, an end to the technology veto, but new business models that do indeed compensate artists for their work, so long as the incentive belongs to the artist and not just to an immortal corporation.
It is how you live that determines whether you will be immortal, not what you make or what you do or what you build but how you live.
The Dean vision isn't really about technology. It's about organizing based on a national brand, in every town and subdivision, about activating people to solve their own problems.
The solution Rice has come up with is to create nanoscale sized iron oxide -- nanorust. This rust can be pulled out of solution with a handheld magnet, while other, larger forms of rust require high-power magnets to come out of solution.
Each generation faces a crisis that creates myths, and defines values, which determine power relationships. After the initial crisis, young people are taught these myths, and the resulting political Thesis builds until it faces a crisis for which its myth has no answer.
The challenge before everyone in this medium is to monetize what they're doing. Most people in the blogosphere are too busy creating content to do that, so most don't monetize very effectively. (I don't.) But there are increasing numbers of tools to do this -- Amazon.Com announced one just today.
Now that the chip companies have got the message out, the PC makers should be following suit with new designs that make sense. And we should start seeing savings on our power bills as well.
Parallelism, which was developed at the Sandia Labs 20 years ago, is just one of many factors that have impacted technology design since then and kept the impact of Moore's Law going right along.
I predict that what is happening is that NBC itself is going on the block. You can't cut your way to 15% annual profit growth -- not for very long. You can only grow your way into it. And if Jeff Immelt (above) doesn't think NBC can achieve these goals, then he is right to seek a buyer for the property.
It is absolutely certain that some catastrophe on a Katrina-like scale is going to hit, somewhere in this world, over the next two years. And in terms of what is coming, Katrina is like a 6.0 Earthquake. There is worse possible.
