http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=2249 examining transformative technology Wed, 03 Apr 2013 18:23:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=2249#comment-19368 Steve Moniz Mon, 12 Jun 2006 19:20:56 +0000 http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=2249#comment-19368 Suppose the IRGC recommendations are instituted, but they turn out to be inadequate. What’s your backup plan? We need to shore up one stakeholder that has been omitted. Most of the IRGC Survey (Part A) deals with the legislative and executive functions of making and enforcing regulations. They left out the judicial branch - and at a bad time. According to futurist Jim Dator, “...the relevance of elected legislatures is fading away while more and more governance is being taken over by judiciaries.” One recommendation from Part A is, “Strengthened capacity of legislative institutions to respond to emerging technologies”. Do you really think you can make a dent in the legislative process? Instead, concentrate on a more responsive institution, the judiciary. Dator continues, “...judges are very poorly prepared, by prior academic training, to be the futurists and philosophers they are increasingly required to be.” If educating our leaders is part of your program, don’t forget the judges. Suppose the IRGC recommendations are instituted, but they turn out to be inadequate. What’s your backup plan? We need to shore up one stakeholder that has been omitted. Most of the IRGC Survey (Part A) deals with the legislative and executive functions of making and enforcing regulations. They left out the judicial branch – and at a bad time. According to futurist Jim Dator, “…the relevance of elected legislatures is fading away while more and more governance is being taken over by judiciaries.” One recommendation from Part A is, “Strengthened capacity of legislative institutions to respond to emerging technologies”. Do you really think you can make a dent in the legislative process? Instead, concentrate on a more responsive institution, the judiciary. Dator continues, “…judges are very poorly prepared, by prior academic training, to be the futurists and philosophers they are increasingly required to be.” If educating our leaders is part of your program, don’t forget the judges.

]]> http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=2249#comment-19290 Phillip Huggan Sun, 11 Jun 2006 22:08:22 +0000 http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=2249#comment-19290 I'm thinking one solution to a corporate MNT monopoly is to index the length of a patent inversely to industrial productivity gains. Right now patents last 20 years and productivity gains acrue at about 0.4% per month. So if MNT facilitates an economy where productivity gains increase 40% per month, drop the length of the patent a hundredfold down to 7 weeks long. That is probably too extreme but some sort of ratio could be used. The idea is to diffuse MNT products as quickly as possible and our present patent regime is just not up to task for servicing the type of non-linear growth MNT will facilitate. I’m thinking one solution to a corporate MNT monopoly is to index the length of a patent inversely to industrial productivity gains. Right now patents last 20 years and productivity gains acrue at about 0.4% per month. So if MNT facilitates an economy where productivity gains increase 40% per month, drop the length of the patent a hundredfold down to 7 weeks long. That is probably too extreme but some sort of ratio could be used. The idea is to diffuse MNT products as quickly as possible and our present patent regime is just not up to task for servicing the type of non-linear growth MNT will facilitate.

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