Tell me again why innovation is increasingly a problem in the USA? The FCC’s meetings on the open internet initiatives (which are popping up like mushrooms after a spring rain) are completely closed. The FDA recently ruled that several of the tools used for baseline genomic research are now “medical devices” and thus destroyed an entire market segment of startups. And the most interesting conversation I had this week was about how to practically use offshore tax havens the same way big companies do.
Hacking is about solving problems, despite government or big industry’s best efforts to prevent it in the name of the status quo or market share. As in any environment, the more you attempt to suppress a balanced system the more the system will disequilibriate itself to counter you – it’s the same thing that happened with BitTorrent and music downloads, and now (increasingly) with TV and streaming.
Would somebody please tell business to wake up and start working with its consumers to give them what they want?