An Interest In:
Web News this Week
- March 28, 2024
- March 27, 2024
- March 26, 2024
- March 25, 2024
- March 24, 2024
- March 23, 2024
- March 22, 2024
Sole and Despotic Dominion: my story about the future of private property for Reason
Reason's December issue celebrates the magazine's 50th anniversary with a series of commissioned pieces on the past and future of the magazine's subjects: freedom, markets, property rights, privacy and similar matters: I contributed a short story to the issue called Sole and Despotic Dominion, which takes the form of a support chat between a dishwasher owner and its manufacturer's rep, who has the unhappy job of describing why the dishwasher won't accept his dishes.
The story is part of a series of thought-experiments/science fiction tales about appliances that follow the Iphone App Store model of limiting interoperability to manufacturer-approved items; it started with the 2015 story "If Dishwashers Were Iphones," and it followed up in my novella "Unauthorized Bread," which will be published in my 2019 book Radicalized (Unauthorized Bread is also being developed for TV).
Read the restI am using Disher dishes. The ones I bought in Dubai.
Sir yes thank you. Please stand by while I investigate your account.
THANK YOU FOR STANDING BY. WE AT DISHER VALUE YOUR TRUST AND STRIVE TO EARN IT EVERY DAY. IF YOU HAVE ANY COMMENTS, CONCERNS OR COMPLIMENTS ABOUT YOUR DISHER EXPERIENCE PLEASE LET US KNOW
Sir thank you I am back. I see from your IP address and other telemetry that you are in Melstone, Montana. Is that correct?
Yes. I took a new job and got relocated here.
Sir thank you I see your problem. Your dishes were sold for use within Shia territories in the Middle East and Asian regions.
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/oRu8zrr1Evg/property-rights-vs-copyrights.html