Sunday 2 September 2012
Imagine we were just developing spoken language for the first time. And someone came up with a new word to describe an action, thought, or feeling - like “magnify” or “dreadful.” But in this strange world, the person who came up with the word demanded anyone else who used it to pay him a dollar every time the word was uttered. That would make it pretty difficult for us to negotiate our way to a society that communicated through speech. That’s the way the patent wars on smartphone and tablet advances are beginning to feel to me. Douglas Rushkoff ☀
