Nobel – Technology Liberation Front https://techliberation.com Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:54:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 6772528 Intellectual Property Laws and Government Security Threaten Science and Knowledge https://techliberation.com/2008/09/30/intellectual-property-laws-and-government-security-threaten-science-and-knowledge/ https://techliberation.com/2008/09/30/intellectual-property-laws-and-government-security-threaten-science-and-knowledge/#comments Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:54:36 +0000 http://techliberation.com/?p=13057

If you find the title of this post provocative, you’ll be interested in a Cato Institute book forum on Friday, October 10th.

In The Crime of Reason, Nobel laureate in physics Robert Laughlin argues that intellectual property laws and government security demands threaten the development of new knowledge. Without change, we risk bequeathing our heirs a world where knowledge is criminalized and our intellectual tradition of unfettered inquiry is lost.

The event should be a fascinating inquiry into the role of information and information rules in our society. Thomas Syndor of the Progress & Freedom Foundation will comment. I’ll be your humble moderator. It’s noon on Friday, October 10th, at the Cato Institute, 1000 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C. Luncheon to follow.

You can register for the event here.

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