Noam Chomsky on Intellectual Property
Franco Iacomella,
P2P Foundation,
Dec 26, 2011
This is how invention works. We see it time and time again. In the words of Noam Chomsky: "the techniques were invented by some small guy, you know working in his garage somewhere in, I think, Michigan. Actually when the MIT mechanical engineering department learned about it they picked them up and they developed them and extended them and so on. And then the corporations came in and picked them up from them, and finally it became a core part of US industry. Well, what happened to the guy who invented it? He’s still probably working in his garage in Michigan, or wherever it is." The funny thing is, when the government wants to foster innovation and development, it mistakenly focuses on the MITs and the corporations, failing to realize that the people you really need to support are the people working in their garages. Via David Wiley, who focuses on the IP part of the transcribed talk. Image via ASTD.
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