On Sep 1, 2012, at 9:53 AM, Don Norman wrote:
> Ken did his study before the Toyota Production System was well known. We
> can get greater savings by adopting TPS.
This has me worried about the legal implications of my listening to music in my Prius. Do I send a check to the RIAA, to Fluxus, Inc., or to Toyota?
The book I mentioned in my last post, -Against Intellectual Monopoly- by Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine (http://www.amazon.com/Against-Intellectual-Monopoly-Michele-Boldrin/dp/0521127262/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1346518684&sr=1-1&keywords=against+intellectual+monopoly), makes a strong case that the absurdities of the current tech patent wars were strongly foreshadowed in the early industrial revolution. They paint a picture of James Watt as more of an obstructionist patent troll than as the Inventor Who Caused It All as most histories tell is.
Speaking of the way histories tell it, they say that history is written by the winners. Does that mean that Terry's computerized history will exalt our robot overlords?
Gunnar
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