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However, the problem that pharmaceutical, and not Internet, companies faced was that their products could maim and kill people. Therefore a huge bureaucracy became involved in deciding what was researched, tested and approved for sale. Costs went up and the answer that the industry found was to bring in the concept of intellectual property. This made its products vastly more expensive and the process of designing and marketing them terribly inefficient. Is the Internet model applicable in the rest of industry?
The streets always seem kind of hazy partly because of the coal dust that is in the air. really hot today. this private taxi driver walked up to me today, the same person who drove me around on my last trip here. he’s going to be taking me around. dhanbad is known to be a very lawless place. there used to be – at one point – daylight shootings, many of them, rapes... things are better but not great. i was told by many people to be careful photographing people because they can do things to you...
In my late teens it became a preoccupation with the technology of cameras. Each new button became a voyeuristic journey. Coincidentally or otherwise, this was the same time that I was in engineering school. I was becoming the tool. The camera dictated what I saw rather then being incidental to it. The subsequent years saw me work down my equipment to its basics, almost in an anti-technology model, to protect my ‘seeing’. Machines do not stand alone. They are the tip of the iceberg of a massive infrastructure of production, finance, corporations and markets.