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A thought occurred to me as I was leaving class today. The topic had been brought up that in today’s culture we are in a state of making small, incremental improvements to things, but nobody ever comes up with strange new ideas, that shake the fabric our culture. This contrasts ‘the olden days’ of the industrial revolution when people were pumping out crazy shit left, right and center to benefit everybody. So why is it we are stuck this way? Why doesn’t somebody pull something from their sleeve and blow us away?

Nobody (except large corporations with lots of money and lawyers) want to deal with copyright and patent bullshit.

Seriously. Odds are, even if you invent something ‘new’, it’s still going to replace or make obsolete something else. That something else though, is probably some popular product produced by a large corporation. They have the resources (read: money) to stomp you out. They can simply buy you out. They can buy marketing share and make your product inferior in the eyes of the consumer. They can run you into debt in so many ways, the favorite is court and other legal battles. They can have you fucking killed. I’m not joking. If you don’t think money can buy murder in this world you’re naive.

All of these new things people come out with are simple expansions on proven ideas. Little things that don’t step on anybody’s feet with regard to copyrights or patents, and then are copywritten or patented again, or simply released into world with a low restriction license or evern just full public domain status. Less problems for everybody.

If you disagree, comment away.

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