As we work together to restore hope to the future, we need to include a new and strange ally-our willingness to be disturbed. Our willingness to have our beliefs and ideas challenged by what others think. No one person or perspective can give us the answers we need to the problems of today. Paradoxically, we can only find those answers by admitting we don't know. We have to be willing to let go of our certainty and expect ourselves to be confused for a time.
The editor-in-chief of the magazine for techno geeks, Wired, has fallen into a controversy over alleged plagiarism after it was discovered that passages of his forthcoming book bear an uncanny resemblance to entries to the online encyclopaedia Wikipedia.
The primary purpose of copyright law is not so much to protect the interests of the authors/creators, but rather to promote the progress of science and the useful arts-that is-knowledge.