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Clear-Cutting the Future: We’ll Hear More About This in 2005
12/29/2004
And it's going to get worse, with the pressure on to pass the Induce Act. In case you haven't read about it yet, that congressional legislation would penalize anyone who makes hardware or software that "induces" (makes it possible to) consumers to illegally copy songs, movies, and software. Don't misunderstand the threat the Induce Act is to innovation and creativity. It's the kind of legislation that would have made it impossible to develop and sell the earliest photocopy machines.
Or, as Desirina Boskovich, a creative writing student at Emory and a "Free Culture" movement spokesperson puts it:
"Our opponents are clear-cutting the future, and the negative results will not be lost forests replaced by wastelands, but creativity that never has a chance to come into being. How do you measure the loss of something which has yet to be? . . . [Still,] what we are battling very much resembles a loss of biodiversity . . . a world in which only those who sign up with big corporations are allowed to create is very much like an environment that consists only of squirrels, sparrows, starlings and suburban lawns."
"From the Campus to the Commons" by Michael Gaworecki on AlterNet: WireTap, December 20, 2004, www.alternet.org/wiretap/20798/.
Now, back to my stealth television killer. At the same time as it chills me that I might appear to be "on the side" of people who have radar detectors in their cars, I delight in knowing that if a television in a bar or restaurant, or an airline terminal or a hospital room, is now at my mercy. But I think I'm going to order several more of these little things, because I expect that one of the items we'll see in the news in 2005 is that the company which makes the TV B-Gone device is itself gone, because making it or owning such things will somehow be made illegal.
Then I guess I will download that new piece of software that will let me Treo
do the same thing.
About the author: Terry Calhoun is Director of Communications and Publications for the Society
for College and University Planning (SCUP). You can contact him through CT's IT Trends forum by clicking here. View more articles by Terry Calhoun.
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