Abolish Silicon Valley
Undergirding this state of affairs is a set of intellectual property rights explicitly designed to favour corporations. This system — the flip side of globalisation — is propagated by various trade agreements and global institutions at the behest of the nation states who benefit from it the most. It’s no accident that Silicon Valley is a uniquely American phenomenon; not only does it owe its success to the United States’ exceptionally high defence spending — the source of its research funding and foundational technological breakthroughs — that very military might is itself what implicitly secures the intellectual property regime. Seen in that light, tech’s recent development begins to look rather different. Far from launching a new era of global prosperity, it has facilitated the further concentration of wealth and power. By virtue of their position as digital middlemen, Silicon Valley companies are able to extract vast amounts of capital from all over the world. The most salient example is Apple: recently crowned the world’s most valuable company, Apple rakes in enormous quarterly profits even as the Chinese workers who actually assemble its products are driven to suicide. ... The Silicon Valley model of technological development is structurally flawed. It can’t simply be tweaked in a more socially beneficial direction, because it was never intended to be useful for all of society in the first place. At its core, it was always a class project, meant to advance the interests of capital. The founders and investors and engineers who dutifully keep the engines running may not deliberately be reinforcing class divides, but functionally, they are carrying out technological development in a way that enables capitalism’s desire for endless accumulation. https://tribunemag.co.uk/2019/01/abolish-silicon-valley
non è necessario, e non servirebbe, abolire la Silicon Valley. Per contrastare il "capitalism’s desire for endless accumulation" basta abolire il "diritto della proprietà intellettuale" e il brevetto, in particolare, lo strumento fondamentale del nuovo capitalismo. Al fine di divertirsi e di comprendere che il brevetto non ha più alcun senso, in conseguenza dell'esplosione di tutte le conoscenze, si dia lettura a dieci brevetti scelti a caso su alcune decine di milioni di brevetti oggi validi. A questo proposito, mi permetto di invitare chi conoscesse qualche brevetto recente utile, a inviarne il testo al nostro magnifico "nexa server" per discuterne collegialmente il livello di innovazione proposto. Raf Il 16/01/2019 19:38, Giacomo ha scritto:
Undergirding this state of affairs is a set of intellectual property rights explicitly designed to favour corporations. This system — the flip side of globalisation — is propagated by various trade agreements and global institutions at the behest of the nation states who benefit from it the most. It’s no accident that Silicon Valley is a uniquely American phenomenon; not only does it owe its success to the United States’ exceptionally high defence spending — the source of its research funding and foundational technological breakthroughs — that very military might is itself what implicitly secures the intellectual property regime.
Seen in that light, tech’s recent development begins to look rather different. Far from launching a new era of global prosperity, it has facilitated the further concentration of wealth and power. By virtue of their position as digital middlemen, Silicon Valley companies are able to extract vast amounts of capital from all over the world. The most salient example is Apple: recently crowned the world’s most valuable company, Apple rakes in enormous quarterly profits even as the Chinese workers who actually assemble its products are driven to suicide.
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The Silicon Valley model of technological development is structurally flawed. It can’t simply be tweaked in a more socially beneficial direction, because it was never intended to be useful for all of society in the first place. At its core, it was always a class project, meant to advance the interests of capital. The founders and investors and engineers who dutifully keep the engines running may not deliberately be reinforcing class divides, but functionally, they are carrying out technological development in a way that enables capitalism’s desire for endless accumulation.
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On January 17, 2019 4:26:52 PM UTC, "armeo@mail.nexacenter.org" <meo@polito.it> wrote:
non è necessario, e non servirebbe, abolire la Silicon Valley.
Per contrastare il "capitalism’s desire for endless accumulation" basta abolire il "diritto della proprietà intellettuale" e il brevetto, in particolare, lo strumento fondamentale del nuovo capitalismo.
Io sono assolutamente d'accordo purché venga vietato al contempo il segreto industriale. Altrimenti rischiamo di passare dalla padella alla brace.
A questo proposito, mi permetto di invitare chi conoscesse qualche brevetto recente utile, a inviarne il testo al nostro magnifico "nexa server" per discuterne collegialmente il livello di innovazione proposto.
Sarebbe interessante in effetti. Giacomo
concordo con Giacomo sul segreto industriale Raf Il 17/01/2019 19:07, Giacomo ha scritto:
On January 17, 2019 4:26:52 PM UTC, "armeo@mail.nexacenter.org" <meo@polito.it> wrote:
non è necessario, e non servirebbe, abolire la Silicon Valley.
Per contrastare il "capitalism’s desire for endless accumulation" basta abolire il "diritto della proprietà intellettuale" e il brevetto, in particolare, lo strumento fondamentale del nuovo capitalismo. Io sono assolutamente d'accordo purché venga vietato al contempo il segreto industriale.
Altrimenti rischiamo di passare dalla padella alla brace.
A questo proposito, mi permetto di invitare chi conoscesse qualche brevetto recente utile, a inviarne il testo al nostro magnifico "nexa server" per discuterne collegialmente il livello di innovazione proposto. Sarebbe interessante in effetti.
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