Sharing.......!!
Sometime back I had read this article (which I have put it in my words)…..
I screamed with glee as the tug on my fishing rod nearly pulled me onto my face. With his strong arms, my father reached over and helped me reel in the big mass of sea weed. He and my sister began laughing as I stared in disbelief. “It’s OK,” he smiled, “we’ll get another one.” It didn’t help that my mom nearly dropped the camera from laughing so hard.We never did get a fish, but through the years he helped me in many other ways. I would work in his dental office after school and help any way I could. At night, he would help me with my homework. And my sister led the family cheering section when I received my college diploma. We were a team.I realize now how much happier my life is when I am working with others or sharing. Whether they are helping me, or I am helping them, burdens seem a little lighter and time is a little sweeter. And some day I just might get that fish.
But when I think, I feel….
We are born savage and self-centered, and then, we get over it. We become civilized. We enter a state in which we understand that sharing is good.
And just as sharing makes us civilized, it's sharing that makes civilization. It lets us build a great collective work from the exchange of stories, myths, songs, poems, facts, jokes, beliefs, scientific discoveries, elegant engineering hacks, and all of the other products of human thought and discourse.
I know that this is a fairly obvious observation. That's why I'm stunned that so many kinds of sharing have suddenly, without public debate, become criminal acts. For instance, lending a book to a friend is still all right, but letting him read the same book electronically is now a theft.
Of course, the justification for this tightened control is the Internet, which ironically, grew almost entirely from sharing. Imagine how different things would be today if IBM had maintained proprietary control over the architecture of the personal computer, or if Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn had created a highly proprietary company called TCP/IP, Inc. What if Tim Berners-Lee had decided to take out a software patent on the World Wide Web?
The fact that the Internet makes it possible for individuals to distribute their intellectual creations directly to consumers terrifies the old industrial intermediaries. At the same time, the Internet gives intermediaries the potential to extract a fee from every single repetition of an expression. Unfortunately, this infringes on the time-honored practice of fair use.
I screamed with glee as the tug on my fishing rod nearly pulled me onto my face. With his strong arms, my father reached over and helped me reel in the big mass of sea weed. He and my sister began laughing as I stared in disbelief. “It’s OK,” he smiled, “we’ll get another one.” It didn’t help that my mom nearly dropped the camera from laughing so hard.We never did get a fish, but through the years he helped me in many other ways. I would work in his dental office after school and help any way I could. At night, he would help me with my homework. And my sister led the family cheering section when I received my college diploma. We were a team.I realize now how much happier my life is when I am working with others or sharing. Whether they are helping me, or I am helping them, burdens seem a little lighter and time is a little sweeter. And some day I just might get that fish.
But when I think, I feel….
We are born savage and self-centered, and then, we get over it. We become civilized. We enter a state in which we understand that sharing is good.
And just as sharing makes us civilized, it's sharing that makes civilization. It lets us build a great collective work from the exchange of stories, myths, songs, poems, facts, jokes, beliefs, scientific discoveries, elegant engineering hacks, and all of the other products of human thought and discourse.
I know that this is a fairly obvious observation. That's why I'm stunned that so many kinds of sharing have suddenly, without public debate, become criminal acts. For instance, lending a book to a friend is still all right, but letting him read the same book electronically is now a theft.
Of course, the justification for this tightened control is the Internet, which ironically, grew almost entirely from sharing. Imagine how different things would be today if IBM had maintained proprietary control over the architecture of the personal computer, or if Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn had created a highly proprietary company called TCP/IP, Inc. What if Tim Berners-Lee had decided to take out a software patent on the World Wide Web?
The fact that the Internet makes it possible for individuals to distribute their intellectual creations directly to consumers terrifies the old industrial intermediaries. At the same time, the Internet gives intermediaries the potential to extract a fee from every single repetition of an expression. Unfortunately, this infringes on the time-honored practice of fair use.
Should I share my thoughts here…….??
Quote of the Day.....!!
"One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. ~André Gide "
We should come out of the bounds made by none other than us and share.......its a nice medium....and there is no such pleasure like sharing your thoughts with others & knowing them...!!
Excogitated by a_beautifulmind @ 8:00 AM
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