Showing posts with label innovation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label innovation. Show all posts
John Stossel: Good News
Are you worried about the future? It's hard not to be. If you watch the news, you mostly see violence, disasters, danger. Some in my business call it "fear porn" or "pessimism porn." People like the stuff; it makes them feel alive and informed. Of course, it's our job to tell you about problems. If a plane crashes — or disappears — that's news. ... MOREMatt Kibbe: 'You Can't Have Freedom for Free'
On Rush, Ayn Rand, and Not Compromising. In 1977, I bought my first Rush album. I was 13. The title of the disc was 2112, and the foldout jacket had a very cool and ominous red star on the cover. As soon as I got it home from the store, I carefully placed that vinyl record onto the felt-padded turntable of my parents’ old Motorola console ... MOREBret Swanson: The Patent Drain On Economic Growth
Patent trolls stifle innovation. Slow economic growth since the Great Recession has been devastating for employment, middle class incomes, and federal and state budgets. Worse, many economists are predicting slow growth for the next generation. A number of policies — from tax and immigration reform to more innovation friendly ... MOREUber Faces Backlash From The New Luddites
by Steven Greenhut. Many people are familiar with "Luddites," those
early 19th century British textile workers who vandalized modern
looms and other innovative, time-saving machinery that they feared
would put them out of business – or reduce the value of their
work. I’m not the first writer to notice the resemblance between the
original Luddite ... MORE'Crazy Cave' Is Poster Child For Government Waste
by Daniel Bates. No incentives for cost-saving innovation. Six hundred workers are processing government pension papers in an underground bunker entirely by hand in a staggering example of state inefficiency that is costing taxpayers millions. Staff at what has been dubbed the ‘Crazy Cave’ take up to 61 days just to deal with ... MOREJohn Stossel: Budget Baloney
Regurgitating hope and change. This week, President Barack Obama proposed "a budget that will create new jobs in manufacturing and energy and innovation and infrastructure, and we'll pay for every dime of it by cutting unnecessary spending, closing wasteful tax loopholes!" What? I must have fallen asleep and woken up in 2008. That could ... MORE50 Reasons This Is The Greatest Period In History
by Morgan House. Other than losing our liberties, life is good. I recently talked to a doctor who retired after a 30-year career. I asked him how much medicine had changed during the three decades he practiced. "Oh, tremendously," he said. He listed off a dozen examples. Deaths from heart disease and stroke are way down. Cancer survival rates ... MORERonald Bailey: Kill Off Software Patents
When patents kill off innovation. The Supreme Court has a chance to give innovation a boost this
year by rolling back one of the country’s most economically stupid
policies. With the case of
Alice Corporation v. CLS Bank International, the
justices will dive into the issue of whether companies should be
able to patent computer ... MORE
3D-Print Your Own Real Gun At Home (See Video)
Gun control, you have to one before you can control it. The Washington Post has an interesting video and story up about how it is now possible to print a useable gun on a 3D printer. The technology is still in its infancy – as one of the videos below shows, the guns don’t always work long – but they’re getting there. And they permit people to ... MOREJ.D. Tuccille: Why Not "Opt Out" Of Government Control?
It's getting ever-easier to exit the system. Balaji Srinivasan, a Stanford
Universty instructor and genomics entrepreneur, recently offered
some radically individualistic advice to aspiring tech innovators.
Speaking at at this year's Startup School, sponsored by tech
"seed accelerator" Y
Combinator, he warned members of the audience ... MORE
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