Pixelated Semantics

Ideas without trees

'Wired' amplifies the power of Blogs with its observations on their political influence, as opposed to "dead-tree publications", in the process deploying some strange new acronyms, like "ROYGBIV" [that is, multi-spectrum, as in rainbow-coloured]. Understanding the influence of political weblogs underpins a call to "anthropologize" the current US electoral campaigning, while the US Supreme Court, on the basis of generally lacking comprehension of the Internet, trashes the privacy of email. Somewhat dialectically, the EFF org has launched their "Patent Busting Project" targeting IT patents passed without adequate grasp of technology or review of "prior art" (arguably including some that Microsoft have recently been granted.) Indeed, as a case in point - an Afghani can probably be credited with discovering that the human body can be used to power electronic devices: Ghulam Sediq Wardak over 40 years ago developed "a radio that operated without batteries... made out of a matchbox, wires, and headphones, and was powered by the low voltage electricity produced by a person's body." MS recently patented a "technology" that is remarkably similar in the US. However Sediq has never patented any of his inventions and is unable to prove intellectual ownership of them.

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