...cts. The very definition of "artist" will expand to encompass all creative people. One will seek to distinguish oneself, to "brand" oneself and to au... ...to third party web sites (such as Bartleby.com and SatireWire). It allows people to donate money or effect micro-payments, apparently through its pa... ... was to exclusively cater to the needs of a highly idiosyncratic group of people (Silicone Valley geeks and nerds). The assumption that the USA (let ... ...tshell, he says, to use his own summation: "Marketing by interrupting people isn't cost-effective anymore. You can't afford to seek out people a... ...hip) exist, even as we write, in all major content providers (CompuServe, AOL, Yahoo!-Geocities, Tripod, Prodigy). The Bloodbath This is the p... ...o entry has largely evaporated together with the fortunes of the likes of AOL Time Warner. Is the Internet a revolution - or barely an evolution? ... ...free, advertising or subscription financed, mega-sites such as Geocities, AOL, Yahoo and Tripod generate more bits and bytes than the rest of the Int... ...rce threatened to post to its Web site the e-mail addresses of millions of AOL members. AOL has aggressive anti-spamming policies. "AOL is blocking b... ...ng of their share of the market. Even "walled gardens" of content (such as AOL) are at risk. By way of comparison, even today, ISPs have four times ...

...II was quintessentially generative technology. It was a platform. It invited people to tinker with it. Hobbyists wrote programs. Businesses began to p... ...nd-alone word processors and proprietary online services like CompuServe and AOL. But the future unfolding right now is very different from this past. ... ...quitous Windows for Mac. Rather, they pose a fundamental dilemma: as long as people control the code that runs on their machines, they can make mistak... ..., they can make mistakes and be tricked into running dangerous code. As more people use PCs and make them more accessible to the outside world through... ...ng these users’ decisions is increasing. That value is derived from stealing people’s attention, PC processing cycles, network bandwidth, or online pr... ...circles while networks were deployed by competing proprietary barons such as AOL, Com- puServe, and Prodigy. The technorati placed bets on which baron... ... system. PCs could dial in to a single com- puter like that of CompuServe or AOL and communicate with it, but the abil- ity to run Internet-aware appl... ... that, anyone buying a PC could hook up to the Internet in- stead of only to AOL ’s or CompuServe’s walled gardens. Proprietary informa- tion services... ...than just the machines found on it. Proprietary networks like CompuServe and AOL were built just that way. They wanted to offer different services to di...

... or duties of third parties towards the right-holder. One has a right AGAINST other people. The fact that one possesses a certain right - prescribes... ...rights and duties as two sides of the same ethical coin - creates great confusion. People often and easily confuse rights and their attendant dutie... ...ight to have one's life terminated IA. The Right to be Brought to Life Only living people have rights. There is a debate whether an egg is a living... ...aintained Does one have the right to maintain one's life and prolong them at other people's expense? Does one have the right to use other people's ... ...e right against third parties that they refrain from enforcing the rights of other people against A? Does A's right not to be killed preclude the r... ...euphemism for censorship) exist, even as we write, in all major content providers (AOL, Yahoo, Lycos). The last, determining, phase is The Bloodbat...

... or duties of third parties towards the right-holder. One has a right AGAINST other people. The fact that one possesses a certain right - prescribes... ...rights and duties as two sides of the same ethical coin - creates great confusion. People often and easily confuse rights and their attendant dutie... ...ight to have one's life terminated IA. The Right to be Brought to Life Only living people have rights. There is a debate whether an egg is a living... ...aintained Does one have the right to maintain one's life and prolong them at other people's expense? Does one have the right to use other people's ... ...e right against third parties that they refrain from enforcing the rights of other people against A? Does A's right not to be killed preclude the r... ...euphemism for censorship) exist, even as we write, in all major content providers (AOL, Yahoo, Lycos). The last, determining, phase is The Bloodbat...

...oximation. According to this latter day - rational - version of the dismal science, people refrain from repeating their mistakes systematically. The... ...ize their preferences. Altruism can be such a preference, as well. Still, many people are non-rational or only nearly rational in certain situa... ...ndbook of Experimental Economics", by John Hagel and Alvin Roth (eds.) admits that people do not behave in accordance with the predictions of basic... ...ory of utility and the theory of general equilibrium. Irritatingly for economists, people change their preferences mysteriously and irrationally. T... ... mysteriously and irrationally. This is called "preference reversals". Moreover, people's preferences, as evidenced by their choices and decision... ...ucture. This is how Jack "neutron" Welsh deliberately structured General Electric. AOL-Time Warner hosts many competing units, yet no one ever inst...

...t ten years. None of that work has been done alone. As a result, the list of people to whom I am indebted makes Oscar night acknowledgments look haiku... ...creative commons” with private tools—of allowing creative collaboration with people you have never met—has shaped this book far beyond the chapter dev... ...cking up of symbols and themes and facts and genes and ideas (and eventually people), why get excited about the patenting of a peanut butter and jelly... ... subject of intellectual property is both accessible and inter- esting; what people can understand, they can change—or pressure their legis- lators to... ...erty.” Admittedly, lawyers think about property differently from the way lay-people do; this is only one of the strange mental changes that law school... ...sters would be reduced. That sounds pretty attractive. But the idea that the AOL search engine would An Environmentalism for Information 233 ___-1 ___...