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How To Predict The Future

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We needed improvements in video compression and in TCP/IP – the underlying protocol that essentially runs the Internet. What once cost $20,000 and was produced by skilled researchers in a lab, now costs $500 and is produced by hobbyists working part-time. Once the hardware is capable enough, the invention is enabled.

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Sawyer on Why Bilski Really Means That Software Companies Should Leave the US

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And the PTO, headed now by the pro-patent former head of IP at IBM, David Kappos, will continue to treat patentees like “customers” and pump economy-destroying patents out as it if were the Fed printing money. The tax situation and cost of living in, say, South America, is much better than in the U.S.

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