Other Kinds of Innovation

Other Kinds of Innovation

Social

Long Tail

No "Great Man"

Taboo Broken: Average people are dumb and dangerous

Dark

Innovation = progress = good stuff

War as a wellspring of innovation

Stuxnet

Hack the Law

rendered quaint

felonized fair use

denuded the public domain

socialized the costs of protection

crippled global innovation

Patents

Patent walls

Terminator Gene

Endangering farming itself

Gene patents

Process patents

Patent trolls

Corporate Personhood

WIPO

WTO

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Regulatory Capture

Exhorbitant executive pay packages

Short-term market rewards

The Commons

No seat at the table

Contested definitions / measurements

Overconfidence

Internet of Things

Terraforming

Smart cars

etc. etc.

Accidental Singularity

Occupy Movement

Compulsory

Education

Rugged individualism

The Invisible Hand

Free Markets

3 Fictitious Commodities:

• Labor
• Land
• Money

What if the big innovation from the rest of the world is innovation without IP protection?

Taboo Broken: Innovation is always beneficial

Poor

(Re)discovery

Scientism

The Commons

No business model!

No exit strategy!

They leave money on the table!

What if the big innovation from the rest of the world is innovation without IP protection?

Taboo Broken: Innovation requires education and resources

(and IP protection)

Crowds and Swarms

Crowdsourcing

Crowdfunding

Kickstarter

#PunkMoney

civilisedmoney

Military Innovations

Stirrups

Blitzkrieg

Longbows

Crossbows

Combined Arms Warfare

Gunpowder

Guerrilla Warfare

Repeating Rifles

The Golden Hour

Cyberwarfare

Machine Guns

Resource sharing

IEDs

TNT

Nuclear Weapons

Drones

Missiles

Chemical Weapons

Enhancing Innovations

Sustaining Innovations

Defensive Innovations

By: Organizations defending themselves from disruption

Participatory Medicine

Disruptive

Innovations

Astronomy

Open Science

Physics

Remix Culture

Michael Wesch at Kansas State

Watch:

RiP! A Remix Manifesto

Social Good

Fiduciary Responsibility

Defensive Innovations

Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998

Digital Rights Management

By: Everyone!

Also 1998

Code is Law

"for limited Times" (Commerce Clause)

Innovation

28 years

renewable only once

you had to apply

Are you going dark?

(a checklist)

Collective Intelligence

Intent

Faulty Mental Models

Outdated conventional wisdom

You may be heading down the dark path if:

• You are working in secret
• Adversarial use (who might be harmed)
• No process for considering social effects, other POVs
• Has internal dissent or discussion been discouraged (Be Like Leo ((Szilard))
• Overly concerned with IP
• Are mainly re-allocating rather than creating wealth
• No consultation with others in your field, outside your field, or other stakeholders
• Defending incumbents/ preserving privilege
• Obfuscation of terms of use
• Are you aware of substantial opposition to what you are building
• Gut check: do you feel uneasy about any aspect of the innovation or the process for it?

Unwise because:

• Bad mental models
• Overconfidence
• Complexity
• Unintended consequences

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

Hanlon's Razor

Wisdom

Suing seed cleaners

Intent

Conscious Evolution

Government

Lag

Grok

Do

Dust Bowl

Effects

Cities = Motorways

Global Climate Change?

14th Amendment

Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad (1886)

governance

the kinds that don't get talked about much

by @jerrymichalski

Re-use

Appropriation

What to do

Frugal innovation

Real Innovation

By: Those with no resources or education

Taboos

Dabbawallas

Impossibilities

Indigenous

Other Kinds of Innovation

A REXpedition

November 2011

Reinvention of ancient wisdom

With:

Jerry Michalski

jerry@sociate.com