Isn’t it amazing that in a world in which so many things are so obvious, so many people keep on ignoring the signs. When there is so much momentum for change so many people keep thinking “same”. Steve Jobs had a great instinct for the signals of change and the way that one mans infrastructure [...]
In 1993, I wrote a paper entitled, How Ubiquitous Free Communication will Alter the Status Quo. I noted that because of electronic chat rooms [Prodigy, AOL and Compuserve] as more women became enamoured of the connectivity options available to them via a ubiquitous global network, that the divorce rate would rise dramatically. I [...]
Most people in this world are regulated by their immediate needs and the stimuli that they receive from the media around them. They go to work to make enough money to pay for food, shelter, and sex – living examples of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. And media is so pervasive that we rely on it [...]
Given the attention of Governments to file sharing, it would appear that the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) was obviously caused by you sharing a copy of Lily Allens “Fuck you very much”. We have Ministers flying all over the world to discuss how to criminalize 15 year old kids who can’t yet vote. These [...]
Introduction For those that havent read the first article in this group – I highly recommend it for complete understanding of this article. ACTA – the Number of the Beast or 1984. http://www.perceptric.com/blog/_archives/2009/4/11/4150002.html There is a strong presumption in US law favoring openness of government documents for a reason: People have a right to know [...]
In the beginning man hunted for his livelihood with club, spear and rocks. Now man hunts for his livelihood by trying to ensure that he can retain what is his, against all comers. Any successful business is based on disrupting existing business models. Today, it is no longer sufficient to be good at what [...]
Of course there is no free lunch… Someone, somewhere pays. The problem for a lot of businesses nowadays is that they have come to expect to get paid not one, but at every point that their particular piece of IP is used. The place where I think the classic 'free' model got started was Dolby. [...]
The 101 key keyboard Last year, Microsoft patented the up/down page keys on your 101 key keyboard. They didn’t actually patent the keys, because of course they don’t make the keyboards. They patented the functionality of Page up and Page down, This surprised me, because I remember in the years before Microsoft, using both [...]
Translation Inventors are important. Without inventors, we would not know what time of the day it was. (Apart from Paul Hogan.) Visionaries are important too, without visionary explorers like Vasco de Gama and Captain James Cook, we would not be sitting on this huge rock called Australia – we would still be huddled around the [...]
Part 1. – P2P is threatening the US Monetary system It took humanity 25,000 years to create the “perfect financial system” and less than a hundred years to destroy it. Perfect? Well that depends on who you are talking too. For sometime, we at Perceptric have been saying that the world needs [...]