Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Jan 05, 2010, 08:51 AM

RSA is sponsoring an event "Why Should We Be Taking Video Games More Seriously."  Journalist and author Tom Chatfield visits the RSA to examine the ways in which virtual game worlds can function as unprecedented laboratories for exploring human motivations, and for evaluating economic theories that it has never been possible before to test experimentally. 

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Jul 23, 2009, 12:56 PM

If we really believe that Information Wants to Be Free, in Stewart Brand's famous phrase, then why are some of the visionaries of the Information Age rushing to old-fashioned commercial publishing to broadcast their ideas? Could it be that they've figured out that "free information" means they can't make a good living publishing on the Internet so, not exactly practicing what they preach, they turn to commercial publishing to make a profit on their ideas about the Internet?

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Jul 01, 2009, 02:56 PM

One reason I was abashed when the plagiarism accusations (justified, owned, apologized for, and, I hope, corrected)  came out about Chris Anderson's new book FREE is that I find him terrifically interesting and unusually thoughtful, even if his contribution is chiefly in raising timely questions, not answering them.  Fortunately, his unacknowledged borrowings from Wikipedia have not swamped the fact that we all urgently want a conversation on what is or isn't free and whether being free is or isn't good for us.

 

Submitted by Lynn Marentette on Sep 27, 2008, 01:32 PM

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Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Apr 16, 2008, 08:16 AM
I keep thinking about what is missing in the DIY economy, who gets left out. Is it the same people who traditionally have labor that is considered worthless?