[Editor's note: the battery on laptop A had pretty much given up the ghost by this point, so I made a few choice notes on the wifi-less laptop B, which I offer below for your kind consideration...]
- Alchemy vs Chemistry. The difference is that in Chemistry you tell other people what you’re doing.
- The internet comes out of the scientific community.
- Scientific norms – embedded in the internet – encourages reuse of other people’s work.
- A permissions-based knowledge-based economy is alchemy. “You drink mercury, and then you die” :~|
Much of the reasoning was familiar to me and, in terms of media control by the entertainment industry, I’m completely in agreement. It was good for me, for the first time, to hear Cory speak though. I chatted to him afterwards about the ORG. Oh, and he gave me his business card! (It’s sad, I know, but it was a highlight of my day).
So, I’m not sure what it all means from the point of view of my employer, which makes a good chunk of its money by charging people money to read about what’s happening in the world of Physics. We don’t slap DRM on our stuff, though.