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The Perils of Centralized Innovation
Gizmodo has an interesting post about How Ma Bell Shelved the Future for 60 Years. It is an excerpt from The Master Switch by Tim Wu. Here is the money quote: This is the essential weakness of a...
View ArticleNEWS ROUNDUP | Another NASA Boondoggle, The Future Is Near
Another political-bureaucratic boondoggle at NASA. Just abolish the agency already and get out of the way of private space enterprises. NASA’s Ares rocket dead, but Congress lets you pay $500 million...
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EDITORIAL | The Perils and Importance of Futurism and Science-Fictional...
When you make predictions about the future, there is a good chance that you’ll be wrong. People have a tendency to grow attached to certain visions of the future and become so jaded by its failure to...
View ArticleNEWS | Arthur C. Clarke vs. Economics and Capitalism
A few years ago in honor of Arthur C. Clarke’s then-recent birthday, I wrote on my own blog that he must never have read Ludwig von Mises and Murray Rothbard, because according to this quote cited by...
View ArticleNEWS ROUNDUP | Douglas Adams vs. Ayn Rand, Digital Publishing, Tablets &...
Brian Defferding (?) over at Practical Praxeology tells us “Why The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is Better Atheist Libertarian Literature than Any Ayn Rand Book.” Do you agree? Digital publishing,...
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NEWS | The End of the Space Age
So announces the cover of the July 2nd – 8th issue of the Economist. I’m not privy to what angle the article or articles will take, but I presume the cover is referring to the retirement of NASA’s...
View ArticleNEWS ROUNDUP | Trek Socialism, SF Encyclopedia Online, Innovations in Publishing
From Mike P. over at The Emptiness comes “Socialism: A love story — Star Trek,” in which he discusses his love affair with Star Trek and how realizing it’s a utopian socialist fantasy actually makes...
View ArticleNEWS ROUNDUP | SF Gateway, Indie & Traditional Publishing, Ebooks, and More
In my last news roundup, I briefly discussed the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction being put online for free by Gollancz. At the time, I speculated: “Why [put it online for free]? Oh, I don’t know,...
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NEWS | Regulators Take on the Ebook
DoJ Assistant AG Sharis Pozen DoJ Assistant AG Sharis Pozen Get this: The federal bureaucrat who last month started the litigation against Apple and book publishers for ebook pricing is the same...
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NEWS ROUNDUP | Lots o’ Links on the Ebook Antitrust Suit, Publishing, &...
Book Publishing’s Real Nemesis Book Publishing's Real Nemesis Amazon vs. Apple And The Agency 5: Let’s Get The Facts Straight (Indie Author) The Worst Article About The eBooks Anti-Trust Suit (Mike...
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NEWS ROUNDUP | Tor Goes DRM-Free, Private Asteroid Mining, Trope “Theft”
It’s been a news-heavy month. Here are a few more tidbits: Yesterday, Tor/Forge announced that it will make all of its ebooks completely free of DRM by early July 2012. This is a momentous and welcome...
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NEWS | Reason.tv Interviews David Brin
David Brin is the author of science fiction novels The Postman, the Uplift series beginning with Sundiver, and others as well as the ever-popular nonfiction work, The Transparent Society: Will...
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