Mountains Out of Molehills: How Believing the Worst Makes Technologists Ineffective, And What They Can Do About It
by Lee Hollaar on 04/26/2007
6 Pages
Synopsis:
Technologists, and particularly computer programmers, seem to fixate on unlikely scenarios while giving only lip service to the massive copyright infringement now happening. When they do look at problems, they dismiss technical solutions because they are not perfect. And they ignore how laws can support or work alongside technology, because law is unfamiliar to them. By putting problems in perspective, technologists can be particularly effective in finding approaches to the real problems in today’s digital world.
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