OpenLife

I enjoy meeting once in a while with Peter Hesseldahl to discuss his ideas and visions about the future (and present) with respect to technology, information, society and all that jazz.

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You are in a cozy trattoria in Venice, Italy. Your 8 years old son takes out his Nintendo DS to play with while waiting for the food. You think that you have raised a modern spoiled anti-social creature. But no, within 30 seconds he is in a conversation face-to-face and over the Nintendo WiFi network with an Italian kid at another table in the restaurant also playing with his Nintendo DS.

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Now from Venice:

Venchi Cuor di Cacao Extra Fondente - 85% cacao
Venchi Blend - 85% cacao

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14.5 Euro (or 108 DKK at the current exchange rate) for a not very good cup of cappuccino at the Cafe Florian at Piazza San Marco in Venezia. Is this a tourist rip-off due to an asymmetric information market failure or fair market value in an economy where services, brand and other intangible values are everything?

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Here is an interesting thought from the presentation by Adrian Bowyer of the RepRap project at the recent Go Open 2008 that I attended in Norway.

“People can make patented things for themselves”

Patentregulation prevents commercial agents without a license to sell people products covered by patents. In the future people will have in their homes cheap 3D printers and Matter Compilers (devices that build the desired article (such as a dress) atom by atom according to a specified design) or Molecular assemblers.

Today, when we copy music and other content with the help of our personal computers we need licenses from the owners of the content. That is because the content is protected by copyright, not by patents, and copyright prohibits the private or personal (the differences between these two definitions have legal implications, though) use, that is in particular copying, of copyrighted material.

Patents, however, does not prohibit noncommercial use of technology covered by the patent. So we do not need permission from the patent holders to manufacture products and objects covered by patents in a our home with the help of our personal 3D printers.

How will patent regulaton respond to ths challenge?

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My grand cousin Andreas Asingh’s band SMALL is playing Friday night 11 april 2008 at Rust to launch their newest single.

I can’t go there as I have to look after the kids that evening, but you can go!

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I have been appointed by the Danish Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation as member of the newly established IT-security committee.

Here is some information on the announcement (in Danish)

http://www.computerworld.dk/art/45166?a=block&i=205&pos=12

http://videnskabsministeriet.dk/site/forside/nyheder/pressemeddelelser/2008/ny-it-sikkerhedskomite-udpeget

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Vilhelm proudly wearing his first Danish national soccer team jersey.

På denne side

http://itst.media.netamia.net/itak08/video.php

findes alle indlæg på årets IT-arkitekturkonference 2008, der afholdtes i Aarhus 2. og 3. april 2008.

Se under mit eget indlæg under Torsdag kl. 13.30 - 14.30: Genbrug af software

Jeg beklager de mange “øhhh”, der primært skyldes jetlag efter min USA turshjemkomst dagen før.