The legal compliance complex

We’ve known for decades that the law is “choking on statutes”. The author of that concept is now known to me. He is an American jurist and legal academic, Guido Calabresi. He wrote “A Common Law for the Age of Statutes” (Harvard...

Software and the economics of oil

So here’s a question: Is not software playing a role in significantly reducing the demand for oil? Use Skype and you don’t have to drive or fly to a meeting. Use software for communication or delivery of digitised data, and you save on oil for...

Lightbulb on Steve Jobs

Intellectual property frenemies 8 September 2011 Digital music technology and copyright timeline 8 June 2010 Smartphone statistics and links 9 September 2009 App Store downloads – can’t catch me sings Steve Jobs  15 July 2009 iPhone pinch pinched? 28...