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Are patents good for you?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14254744

Patents are supposed to be good for innovation, protecting an inventor from having their ideas ripped off by unscrupulous imitators.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14254744

2011-07-22

patent open source progress improvement software

Fighting futurism: why ‘progress’ is a myth

http://www.kernelmag.com/features/essay/2012/01/fighting-futurism-why-progress-is-a-myth/

http://www.kernelmag.com/features/essay/2012/01/fighting-futurism-why-progress-is-a-myth/

2012-01-05

future progress technology

Seventies

http://xkcd.com/1072/

http://xkcd.com/1072/

history telephony progress

The end of High Street banking as we know it

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20415544

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20415544

2012-11-23

bank money currency future progress Internet