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" Few industries have the ability to transform society like tech, yet too few companies are asking the questions or working on the problems that would create meaningful social change. "
Mitch Kapor
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No Fear
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" In an economy where more and more value is in information - is in the bits, not the atoms, where bits can be copied essentially for free - any time you have that situation, economic schemes that rely on existing models of intellectual property laws for protection are going to do less and less well. "
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Education
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