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Ian is introducing Equestria to the idea of Patent? Now there is nothing to stop them to face the dark side of invention.
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exept celestia when ian explanes it
As scummy as it might be, I think patenting all those basic ideas and groundwork techs would be the smart move in the long term, that’s funding he wouldn’t need to get approval for on more crazy projects, that’s some serious status booster for the court where he can have more sway with his opinion. Of course, it would be nice if he would patent the D-Dog tunneling structures on their behalf and deal with all the paperwork so they could just reap the rewards of their hard work.
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The question there is if the D Dogs have methodology that can be used by a pony.
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It’d be much in the same way as the Japanese buying the patents to generators but still needing the dutch to build them for them I think.
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Um, link? Made me curious.
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I wouldn’t know where to look for it, it’s more information that I know, I know it was around the time Japan opened it’s borders to the rest of the world and they wanted to catch up quickly and in the modern way, so they hired experts from around the world in the leading sciences to give them the boost they needed.
Edit : sometime in the 17-1800s
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What dark side?
Hmmmmmm... If he patents everything in his phone, he's denying generations of ponies the opportunity to find their own solutions and inventions. Maybe even stifling innovation. Who needs to work at discovering thins when you can just go to the patent office and dig through ready made solutions? Even if he patents the inventions and states that they're free for anyone to use, he may be stifling invention.
On the other hand, if he just hands out ideas and access to his knowledge base those he's friends with or works with directly... Well, is that particularly fair? If you happen to be in the social of Ian Langerman, you've got a good chance of being handed a golden ticket.. Knowledge you can patent and then earn good bits off of. You're a clever pony living out in he boonies, but you figured out a great new idea? Sorry, already patented by some city slicker who hangs out around the Font of Knowledge in Canterlot. Sorry!
And, of course, burying his cell phone and letting the ponies learn by trial and error... That's some cruel Prime Directive level BS there. "Hey, did you guys know about antibiotics? No? Wellllll.... I should probably let you figure it our yourselves. I'd hate to steal the thunder from some PONY inventor who's sure to pop up in the next few generations..."
Kind of a tricky moral balancing act really...
Should have mentioned the patent trolls, Ian! It's not just patent violators Celestia needs to worry about.
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I am glad to see someone sees the tough question really being asked here. There is no one obvious 'right' choice.
Whitworth patents the Standard Bolt. then demands a license fee for each user. Its very easy for a Canterlot Noble to throw out ten thousand bits a year, but how is a small town blacksmith going to manufacture and sell hundreds of thousands of bolts in a year just to keep a dozen carts running, and what about the next year when their market saturates for the next centuary due to oversupply and the license still holds?
Never mind when that 1 bit bolt is used by the millions in a gigabit Civilisation Project.
Looks like someone Really hates the idea of Open Source. His phone is Apple?
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If your goal is to be 'standard', putting a fee on it sure is a way to make it not standard, especially in a still developing system. What makes your bolt special? Not much.
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Couple intresting pivotal things from such a library?
Fred Fish
Albert Einstein.
He could reach a compromise with his phone. Write it all down, then give it to Celestia as a tome of secret knowledge. For her eyes only (not that she'll understand most of it) until a time deemed necessary. One day it'll just be an old book of known things, and then it can be released to the public. Before? It's knowledge can just as well be black sorcery in it's power for change.
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like nuclear weapons.....
So we’re working on patents now. Interesting.
Knowing Celestia, she’d want to keep Equestria in the Roman Era because she doesn’t want to recognize the peaceful applications of certain ideas. Equestrian astronomy is already its own can of worms because of Equestria being a rogue planet and Luna’s tendency to move the stars every so often. And something about anime being a sin.
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Generally speaking, you can't patent something that is already in existence. (There are edge cases, I know, I know.) So your example of a bolt fails. It already exists and is publicly available. Mr. Blacksmith can make them to his heart's content.
Now, Chrome Coater invents a new form of stainless steel that's AWESOME for making bolts! They last 10 times as long! He can, and should, patent the hell outta that. It didn't exist before. (Or if it DID, it was a trade secret and not wide spread.) Not it WILL be wide spread. And in 30 years, ANYONE will be allowed to make it, and EVERYONE will know HOW to make it. Stainless Steel bolts will go from non-existent to very expensive but available to, eventually, cheap and plentiful. As opposed to, in all likelihood, straddling the line between rare and expensive (It's a trade secret of that one shop/family) and non existent (Annnndd the last member of that family got hit by a cart, and the knowledge is lost.) With, of course, the occasional alternate outcome that the secret gets out after a few years. Which likely ruins poor Chrome Coater.
Of course, cheap long lasting bolts might not be such a boon for MR. Blacksmith. Especially is making bolts is a staple of his business. But that's the price of technological advancement. It's been happening ever since some smartypants invented the wheel, and put all of those neanderthals hauling stuff around on their backs out of business. Technological improvements tend to hurt a small subset of the world, while improving life overall. Mr. Blacksmith will take a hit. But his family, children, and grandchildren will all benefit from living in a world where stainless steel bolts are cheap and easily accessible.
In other words, Patents are AWESOME!
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Or even just the AND gate.
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I would worry more about the political and philosophical ideas in that device. Nuclear weapons may be dangerous, but socialistic philosophy in a world where industry is run by serfs or guilds? We saw what happened in Russia when serfs got a hold of those ideas!
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Nanomachines have been in production (for research purposes) since 2008ish. Between a deux ex machina encyclopedia explaining everything and unicorn magic; nanomachine production would be trivial.
Great to see more of adorable Water. And I like Ian applying himself so brilliantly.
Other than all those times Flash Magnus and the Pegasi Legion drove off attacking dragons with storm clouds?
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Numerous conflicts caused by patent have been occurred throughout the history of invention. Fights over patent could become ugly and sometimes the ones with bigger backers won the claim over the patent and caused the real inventor to lose the credit/opportunities he deserved. One such notable case was Elisha Gray vs Alexander Graham Bell. Sometimes the originator lose his ability to utilize what was his because someone else was quicker to file a patent - the same way many US companies patented the plants/animals originate in other countries. Thus, made the locals lost their ability to market what was theirs to begin with.
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It'll drive innovation. Figuring out how to make the stuff will keep innovators busy. And when they finally get to the end of that, they'll have a jumping off point for inventions of their own. Knowing what a vacuum tube is doesn't tell you how best to create them economically.
The whole point of the episode is about judging books by their covers. The episode does it twice, once with Zecora, and once with Twilight literally judging a book in her library called Supernaturals which was about herbal remedies, by its cover. This whole concern is moot because the cure is not known exclusively by zecora in the future, but is ignored by Twilight because she doesn’t like a book title.