LETTURE SUL FUTURO
Protecting Innovation with Idea Citation
The free flow of ideas may require new legal forms of intellectual property protection.
Textual Poaching and Media Fandom
Online fan communites come into conflict with copyright law, but are valuable in an Attention Economy
The Noetic Convergence
AI expert systems will automate patterned forms of intellectual work, but the new human value-added will be creativity and insight.
The Attention Economy
Attention is becoming a major part of value in the New Economy
E-Documents and the Future of Text
Documents require new tools, styles, and training. Yet narrative persists.
Just in Time Justice
How the Internet enables private law systems and regulation through technology infrastructure.
Emerging Legal Issues
Tortocracy, the Surveillance State, Open Source Contracts, Cult like Corporations.
The New Eugenics
Why prenatal genetic testing is leading to a de facto policy of eugenics.
Teledildonics, Boys Movement, Seattle
Tools for cyber sex, brief essay on the boys movement, reaction to WTO protests.
The Emerging Open Source Paradigm
The wider impact of Open Source software on Biotech and Intellectual Property
Genomics and Future Health Insurance
How Genomics erodes health insurance but could support the creation of Medical Derivative contracts.
Digital Degenerates: The World Wide Wank
Why sexual content on the internet may lead to a more libertine Millennial generation.
Internet Developments
Visual Display forecasting, applications of the Lycos 50, Quickbrowse as a scanning tool, Web Aggregators.
Navigating the Noosphere
Improving search engines by measuring user attention, emerging tools for graphical web navigation.
Ominous Brain Interfaces
Recent brain research breakthroughs give rise to technologies for reprogramming belief systems.
Random Emerging Issues
Aliens as Halloween Icons, Bigger Boobs, Future of Retail, low-carb dieters changing notions of "diet" food.
Global Mind Change
New Paradigms, and how Scientology is an example of how unusual those paradigms should be.
The UberMouse Cometh
IQ enhancement in mice may bring about the social stratification outlined in The Bell Curve.
Urban Sprawl and the New Urbanism
The war against sprawl: planning, policy, and technological approaches.
Fourth Turning, Complexity Politics, Waco
Millennial Gen attitudes going into crisis, the Libertarian applications of Complexity theory, Waco reemerges as an issue.
Election 2016: Four Scenarios
Four Scenarios focused on the effects of Internet political campaigning and campaign finance reform.