Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 307. This is my appearance on the Ernie Hancock “Declare your Independence” show for Dec. 17, 2020 (Hour 2). We discussed Intellectual Property in the Internet era, and related matters.
Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 231. This is my appearance on Let’s Talk ETC! (Ethereum Classic) (Dec. 8, 2017), discussing the referenced topics. The audience is not really a libertarian one so I explained different approaches to libertarianism and some of my thoughts about libertarian activism, the prospects of bitcoin and other technology possibly aiding […]
Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 220. This is my interview by Rod Rojas of the Future Gravy show, which focuses on bitcoin and blockchain topics. We discussed how patents harm innovation and various strategies some companies use to try to deal with the patent threat, such as patent pooling, defensive patent licensing, whether Blockstream’s Patent […]
Illuminating lecture by the late, great Petr Beckmann. For more on Beckmann, see my posts: Access to Energy (archived comments); A Basic Physics Reminder for Solar Energy Advocates; Beckmann’s Economics as if Some People Mattered, or, Small is Not Beautiful; Carson: Libertarians for Junk Science.
Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 134. [Update: Transcript is here, and appended below.] This is my appearance as a Guest panelist on This Week in Law, Episode 267 (July 18, 2014). Brief description: “Are patent trolls losing ground? Dish Anywhere in the Aereo aftermath, FCC gets 1 million comments on U.S. net neutrality debate and more!” Once again, the hosts […]
Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 127. From December 2011, an interview by Stefan Molyneux for his Freedomain Radio program about the evil Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA. We discussed the First Amendment violations of and other problems with SOPA.
Devices and markets that smartphones have replaced or are replacing, at least in part, or at least supplementing and radically changing. It’s truly amazing: calculators watches/clocks Alarm clocks flashlight GPS maps books e-readers computers CD players, MP3 players, Walkman DVD players video game consoles remote controls compass dictaphone land lines address books/rolodex cameras video cameras […]
From Mises Blog 2006; archived version comments below. See also Rothbard on Libertarian “Space Cadets”. Don’t worry–you don’t exist: Or, why long-range planning is really impossible November 6, 2006 by Stephan Kinsella I previously blogged about one of the papers by attorney Peter Jenkins. Now, from the “uhhhhh…. HO-kay” files comes his latest, in the […]
I’ll be a guest in an hour or so This Week in Law with Denise Howell. The live cast starts at 11 a.m. Pacific.
Funny parody of technology using real fruit, from The Beeb’s The One Ronnie (h/t Peter Surda):
