Business
Environmental Entrepreneurship
In the past few years, we have greatly improved our environmental quality. However, new challenges of disappearing habitat, ineffective regulations etc continue to pose more challenging problems. This has given rise to a new breed of environmental activists – environmental entrepreneurs. Environmental entrepreneurs specialize in identifying conservation opportunities, mobilizing resources, and building a constituency for [...]
Spore
Spore is a multiplatform “God game” under development by Maxis and designed by Will Wright that allows a player to control the evolution of a species from its existence as a multicellular organism to a spacefaring sapient creature. The game has drawn wide attention for its promise to simulate this development of a species through [...]
Intellectual Property in 2012
Tim Wu talks with Jeffrey Toobin about the tension between control and exposure in intellectual-property law today. Wu believes the copyright tension in the next few years will be between control (making money off content) and exposure. He explains why in February, 2009, your television screen might go blank if you do not have cable [...]
