Is Elon Musk (right) the model for a new type of ruler of the virtual world who will challenge masters of the tangible one like Russia’s President Putin? On 13 April — less than 50…
Category: The digital economy
Covid vaccine IP waiver is just the start: intellectual property is (mainly) theft
The US Administration announced on 5 May that it supports waiving intellectual property (IP) protections for Covid-19 vaccines. “These extraordinary times and circumstances call for extraordinary measures,” US trade ambassador Katherine Tai said. More than 100 developing countries have called on…
Data doesn’t create value; people do
A report published in August by London’s Institute for Public Policy Research gets one big thing right but an even bigger one wrong. The author — former Jeremy Corbyn advisor James Meadway — is right to assert that electronic data…