Sunday, August 13, 2006

A closed mind about an open world

Interesting article. Makes me wonder how much of this data could be mapped across to the OGL in the RPG biz.

A closed mind about an open world

Studying intellectual property and the internet has convinced me that we have another cognitive bias. Call it the openness aversion. We are likely to undervalue the importance, viability and productive power of open systems, open networks and non-proprietary production. Test yourself on the following questions. In each case, it is 1991 and I have removed from you all knowledge of the past 15 years.


[Via Boing Boing]