Make Free — Are You the Scanner or the Barcode? 04/01/2010 Why is the phone emitting and the world sensing? Why not build the sensors into the phone and the emitters...
Make Free — Who You Calling Unoriginal? 01/19/2010 There’s a strain of thinking that says it’s cheating to innovate by remixing or reconfiguring other people’s existing inventions.
Make Free — Shortcut to Omniscience 11/17/2009 The Encyclopædia Britannica contains facts. Wikipedia contains facts about facts. This is Wikipedia’s secret weapon and its greatest weakness.
Make Free — Positive Externalities 08/18/2009 When it comes to assistive technology and externalities, there is no “us” and “them.”
Make Free — If You Can’t Open Government, You Don’t Own It 03/19/2009 There’s never a good reason for the government to keep its everyday workings a secret from the people who own...
Make Free — Love the Machine, Hate the Factory 03/10/2009 The biggest appeal of steampunk is that it exalts the machine and disparages the mechanization of human creativity.
Make Free — Selectable Output Control 11/11/2008 The dead hand of copyright is in the guts of your inventions.
Make Free — Gander Sauce for Hollywood 08/25/2008 The entertainment industry is obsessed with kicking people off the internet.
Make Free — Too Much Time on My Hands 05/27/2008 All creative endeavor begins with just fooling around, not doing much of anything, just noodling and letting the different parts...
Make Free — Predicting the Present 03/04/2008 I suspect the future is probably weirder than the Singularity (it’s usually weirder than we think). But the popularity of...
