http://craphound.com/overclocked/2007/01/19/mini-comic-of-printcrime/ Stories of the Future Present Sun, 01 Jan 2012 11:22:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://craphound.com/overclocked/2007/01/19/mini-comic-of-printcrime/comment-page-1/#comment-72 Questioning the Author at Borderlands at johnplanet: Fri, 09 Feb 2007 19:41:37 +0000 http://craphound.com/overclocked/2007/01/19/mini-comic-of-printcrime/#comment-72 [...] If you listen carefully you can hear me asking Cory Doctorow a lot of questions. Right after he finishes reading Print Crime I chime in. Here’s the audio…. Search [...] [...] If you listen carefully you can hear me asking Cory Doctorow a lot of questions. Right after he finishes reading Print Crime I chime in. Here’s the audio…. Search [...]

]]> http://craphound.com/overclocked/2007/01/19/mini-comic-of-printcrime/comment-page-1/#comment-55 Antonio Semeco Mon, 05 Feb 2007 19:23:36 +0000 http://craphound.com/overclocked/2007/01/19/mini-comic-of-printcrime/#comment-55 "Printcrime" tackles one of my favorite subjects head on: What happens to the value of things when they can be synthesized as easily as a photocopy? I'm talking about a longer timeframe here: In a few hundred years or so, we should be able to "photocopy" a lot more things. The first ones that will be copyable are those with the simplest molecular structure, and the highest value: Raw diamonds, gold. Later on, we will be able to copy finely crafted gold and diamond jewelry, too. This will turn price structures upside down: The most valuable attributes will be originality and difficulty to replicate. As in a good novel or a good vintage of Bordeaux. Cory Doctorow, as an author, would thrive in such a future world. “Printcrime” tackles one of my favorite subjects head on: What happens to the value of things when they can be synthesized as easily as a photocopy?
I’m talking about a longer timeframe here: In a few hundred years or so, we should be able to “photocopy” a lot more things. The first ones that will be copyable are those with the simplest molecular structure, and the highest value: Raw diamonds, gold. Later on, we will be able to copy finely crafted gold and diamond jewelry, too.
This will turn price structures upside down: The most valuable attributes will be originality and difficulty to replicate. As in a good novel or a good vintage of Bordeaux.
Cory Doctorow, as an author, would thrive in such a future world.

]]> http://craphound.com/overclocked/2007/01/19/mini-comic-of-printcrime/comment-page-1/#comment-40 Chris Thu, 01 Feb 2007 19:24:17 +0000 http://craphound.com/overclocked/2007/01/19/mini-comic-of-printcrime/#comment-40 This is really cool -- I'm ever-so-subversively leaving them around my office as an inspiration to the oppressed folk here. - Chris This is really cool — I’m ever-so-subversively leaving them around my office as an inspiration to the oppressed folk here. – Chris

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