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Travel to the Farthest Reaches of the Imagination
Acclaimed editor and anthologist David G. Hartwell is again along with his fourth annual high-powered selection of the year's so much artistic, interesting, and awe-inspiring technological know-how fiction. in brief, the best.
Here are tales from today's best identify authors, plus intriguing newbies, all desirous to land you on unique planets, introduce you to unusual new existence kinds, and convey you scenes extra extraordinary than something you've imagined.
So relax and blast off for an grand journey with
Stephen Baxter
Gregory Benford
David Brin
Nancy Kress
Bruce Sterling
Michael Swanwick
and many more...
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Third, promote public recognition that an act of donation is an honor—a prestigious deed benefitting the national cultural heritage. ’ Among the founders of Creative Commons is Eric Eldred, the lead plaintiff in the recent Supreme Court case challenging the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act. Other organizations have pursued similar activities toward intellectual property conservancies, and my own archive has partnered with the non-profit Internet Archive to put 2,000 films online for free downloading and reuse.
How might such a ‘national park for intellectual property’ work? First, the preserve would be a repository for intellectual property rights that had been donated by rights holders. These rights would include copyrights, or in the case of public domain materials, the right to reproduce and disseminate the materials. The activities of the preserve would be closely coordinated with existing institutions, which would often still hold physical materials. 26 Prelinger 01 intro 26 Collective Action 5/3/04 5:04:45 pm The preserve would contain textual material, still and moving images, works of art, sounds and digital information of all kinds, plus patents.
The old irrationalism is the legacy of slavery and dire poverty. I arrived in Port-au-Prince on a fine April morning in 1996 with a suitcase full of tuna fish. My fellow passengers were loaded down with similar goods. I’d been warned by the friend I was meeting there that food, especially protein, was hard to come by in much of Haiti; this turned out to be true. There is no working telephone system in Haiti, and the electricity cuts off regularly, even in the capital. There is no public transportation other than ‘tap taps’: converted pick-up trucks, usually open to the elements and with standing-room only.
