Why shouldn't we give our teachers a license to obtain software, all software, any software, for nothing? Does anyone demand a licensing fee, each time a child is taught the alphabet?

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The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet.

The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet.

It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits,...

It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits,...

Generation X is dead. It has come to mean anyone aged 13 to 55 years...

Generation X is dead. It has come to mean anyone aged 13 to 55 years...

Generation X is dead. It has come to mean anyone aged 13 to 55 years...

Generation X is dead. It has come to mean anyone aged 13 to 55 years...

A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human...

A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human...

Why shouldn't we give our teachers a license to obtain software, all software, any software,...

Why shouldn't we give our teachers a license to obtain software, all software, any software,...

For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this...

For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this...

And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with...

And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with...

Time moves in one direction, memory in another.

Time moves in one direction, memory in another.

The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station.

The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station.

The box was a universe, a poem, frozen on the boundaries of human experience.

The box was a universe, a poem, frozen on the boundaries of human experience.

The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.

The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.

I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we...

I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we...

Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by...

Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by...

Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but...

Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but...

I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough...

I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough...

The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet.

The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet.

The deadliest bullshit is odorless and transparent.

The deadliest bullshit is odorless and transparent.

Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye.

Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye.