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This may be somewhat radical but the problem might just be capitalism as we have it now. Capitalism isn't good at long shot type investments where risk and returns are hard to calculate. I suspect the reason why "small companies" and public research institutions do the path breaking innovation (the kind where completely new arcs of investment opportunity open up) is the simple reason that corporations can't do the maths and therefore don't invest until later in the game. Which seems kind of stupid given, corporations are the ones who can most afford to absorb the risks.

It seems the price mechanism has limits in terms of being able to price risk and invest efficiently. Furthermore, the capitalist system we have now is still basically geared for a top down approach that worked very well for industrial production but less so for creative production.

This is an interesting video on creativity and motivation and the breakdown of classical economic models.

• RSA Animate - Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us
  
  
• Amazon - Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
  
  
• Library Genesis - Daniel H. Pink
  
  I am also thinking about the idea of a Citizen Income system. So that as a minimum, creative types can survive and work on their madness without worrying about starving.

Noam Chomsky is the author of Profit Over People: Neoliberalism & Global Order, What Uncle Sam Really Wants, and countless others.

Naomi Wolf is the author of The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot, Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries, and others.

Chris Hedges is the author of "Someone You Love: Coming to a Gulag Near You", The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress, Death of the Liberal Class, and others

Daniel Ellsberg @ http://www.ellsberg.net/articles

Cornel West @ http://www.cornelwest.com/

Birgitta Jónsdóttir's website & twitter

Alexa O'Brien's website & twitter

Kai Wargalla's twitter account.

Tangerine Bolen @ RevolutionTruth; website & twitter

Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt -- a great book on the issue if you're interested.

The thing I like about this article is that is links to the novel in question.

I might buy it just to help support the wrongfully fired teacher.

Yet another cretin who has not read anywhere near enough Chomsky to know a thing about him. Chomsky is one of the most hopeful activists one can image. This "author" strawmans like his life depends upon it.

Listen to the last track on this (steal it of course) to get a better idea of what Chomsky actually thinks....or you know just email him. Hes about as far from doom and gloom as you can get: http://www.amazon.com/Class-War-Attack-Working-People/dp/B00000DFW0

Insert Army of the Republic reference here.... A novel by Stuart Archer Cohen where the government privatizes water

I think they're talking about the popular Android tv boxes from China that come loaded with Kodi and the plugins for illegal streaming. Amazon sells a few different models like this one.

From the product description:
> "Hundreds of free streaming add-ons available for KODI online, SAVE your money for paying cable, satellite or whatsoever."

And lots of cordcutters praising the "free tv" in the comments. The way it's presented I think most buyers don't realize that they're viewing illegal streams.

The cops are going after the sites hosting the streams and the pubs who use them. No mention of going after individuals but they are vulnerable as the illegal streams don't hide users' IP addy, AFAIK.

These Android tv boxes are kinda junky and Android is hard to upgrade on them. A much better option is a Raspberry Pi 3 with an install of OpenELEC on it.

> There's not a new world order outright ain't trying to make us dumber, we're doing it to ourselves.

I respectfully disagree. While human stupidty may be a universal constant, factory schools have been proactively exacerbating it for a century. Not just failing to educate, but anti-educating; the little bit of real learning comes from a minority of individual teachers, and those students who are sufficiently driven to teach themselves, both inside and outside the system.

Take a look at the work of former teacher John Gatto for further elaboration.

Check out Tesla, Master of Lightning. An excellent book on the man. From the preface:

>His indifference to corporate and academic alliances, not to mention a certain testiness toward fellow engineers, plus the fact that he had no offspring to carry on his name, lay at the root of the obscurity which befell him.

It's even more than that, however. He trusted in others in a truly naive way, but due to the fact that he felt men of science were above petty, business back-stabbery. This, naturally, led him to being back-stabbed over and over, particularly as relates to his patents.

As another example there is an incident, too, described aptly enough in Wikipedia:

>In 1885 Tesla claimed he could redesign Edison's inefficient motor and generators, making an improvement in both service and economy. According to Tesla, Edison remarked "There's fifty thousand dollars in it for you - if you can do it".[36] This has been noted as an odd statement from an Edison whose company was stingy with pay and did not have that sort of cash on hand.[37] After months of work when Tesla finished the task and inquired about payment Edison claimed he was only joking replying, "Tesla, you don't understand our American humor".[38][39] Edison offered a $10 a week raise over Tesla's US$18 per week salary, but Tesla refused it and immediately resigned.[40]

In The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot, published in 2007, Naomi Wolf talks about the ongoing "fascist shift" in America. Things like this and the NSA "revelations" (quotation marks used because, while we knew about it from the likes of Binney, we hadn't seen any official documents until the Snowden leaks) are examples of what a fascist shift looks like.

At one point, while I was reading today, I came across the phrase, "Spying is the fuel of fascism." It may sound alarmist, but she gives historical examples from 1920s Italy, 1920s-30s Germany, etc., and she's dead on. Depending upon what you use as your litmus test, we are either swiftly descending into global fascism or already there.