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Part 3 is fresh off the press, read the first part here and part two here if you need to catch up.
Section Two – Democracy, Autonomy and Copyright.
“I argue that a purely market-focused information policy—in particular one focused on exhaustive propertization of the physical, logical, and content layers of the information environment—exacts a significant normative social cost in terms of personal autonomy”.
-Yochai Benkler –SIREN SONGS AND AMISH CHILDREN: AUTONOMY, INFORMATION, AND LAW.
“A key component of health-care reform—and saving our ass from going bankrupt and sick from spending too much on lousy treatments—is establishing comparative effectiveness measures, otherwise known as ‘actually knowing WTF works and what doesn’t.'” – David Dobbs on Neuron Culture
Talk about a shot across t he bow of all the practitioners of woo and assorted gobbledygook. Nothing like an Orac rant, but succinct and to the point.
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