Some other math/crypto sci-fi
Foobulus Baracculus
foobar_2001 at hotmail.com
Wed Jan 24 06:56:41 PST 2001
...
Alan Olsen:
wouldn't that be perfect? a "collectable patent card game", as a way to
criticise patents (by using the most ridiculous ones on the cards),
which in itself violates a patent... hm, I like the idea...
"combine the 'patent for display of blablah' with the 'method or device
for remote information acquisition' and you can cross-license that
against your enemie's 'global computer network patent' for 10 points."
...
This would be a fabulous way of introducing young children into the new
emerging world.
One of the strategies of the game would be to build a patent portfolio. For
example, you have developed an idea, and now you need to take out something
like 250,000 patents on anything and everything possible and even likely to
be tenously linked to protecting your idea, anything near your idea, and how
to produce your idea, or sell your idea, or do anything likely to be
possible with your idea. Your opponent pays the role of a patent lawyer,
trying to navigate through every little crack in your patent portfolio
armour. It would be a wonderful way of illustrating how one simple creative
idea requires ten times as much creative ideas just to protect that original
idea. An excellent introduction to the simplicity of the contemporary world.
Foobulus Barraculus
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