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Permissionless Innovation: The Continuing Case for Comprehensive Technological Freedom Paperback – March 10, 2014

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What policy vision will govern the future of technological innovation? Will innovators be forced to constantly seek the blessing of public officials before they develop and deploy new devices and services, or will they be generally left free to experiment with new technologies and business models?

In this book, Adam Thierer argues that if the former disposition (“the precautionary principle”) trumps the latter (“permissionless innovation”), the result will be fewer services, lower quality goods, higher prices, diminished economic growth, and a decline in the overall standard of living.

When public policy is shaped by “precautionary principle” reasoning, it poses a serious threat to technological progress, economic entrepreneurialism, and long-run prosperity. By contrast, “permissionless innovation” has been the secret sauce that fueled the success of the Internet and much of the modern tech economy in recent years, and it is set to power the next great industrial revolution—if we let it.

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Adam Thierer is a senior research fellow with the Technology Policy Program at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. His writings have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Economist, Washington Post, The Atlantic, and Forbes, and he contributes to The Technology Liberation Front, a leading tech policy blog.

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Item Weight : 4.8 ounces
Paperback : 106 pages
ISBN-10 : 0989219348
ISBN-13 : 978-0989219341
Dimensions : 5 x 0.24 x 8 inches
Publisher : Mercatus Center at George Mason University; 1st edition (March 10, 2014)
Language: : English

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Calestous Juma

This is an excellent analysis of the relationships between technological innovation and freedom

Reviewed in the United States on August 28, 2016

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This is an excellent analysis of the relationships between technological innovation and freedom. It reveals the complex co-evolution between technology and the expansion of human liberties. The book charts a new path for understanding the role of technology in socio-economic evolution.

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Marc Brandl

Solid

Reviewed in the United States on August 3, 2014

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Solid policy intro. to this field and Thierer makes his case persuasively

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Lee C. Wentker

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Reviewed in the United States on November 7, 2014

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Very disappointed. Every chapter is the same as the previous one. It's better to let innovation proceed unimpeded and then regulate instead of shoot first, aim later. Each chapter then followed up with pages of supporting material for you to research on your own. If that's what I wanted to do, I wouldn't have purchased the book in the first place. I only read the whole thing because I paid for it, even though I knew how it was going to end - It's better to let innovation proceed unimpeded and then regulate instead of shoot first, aim later.

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Michael T. Fearnow

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Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2016

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was unable to use with Audible, the reason I purchased device.
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Michael GreenGold

"Permissionless Innovation" > "Internet Entrepreneurs Proceed, Without Their Permission & Regulation, Just Good Ideas" <

Reviewed in the United States on May 7, 2014

Adam Thierer ( @AdamThierer on Twitter )( @techliberation on Twitter ) goes, in 106+ Pages, into numerous discussions & examples, etc. about the continued case & need for "Comprehensive Technological Freedom" as a extension of the first generation on Internet Open-Innovation!!!...>>> Regulators, Prosecutors, Politicians, Bureaucrats, etc., by various ways, want to undermine Internet Open-Innovation & Services, etc. with "the permission question" as WE, Internet Entrepreneurs, etc., go into the next generation and they try to overcome their "mistakes" during the first generation of our "Permissionless Innovation" Permissionless Innovation: The Continuing Case for Comprehensive Technological Freedom
"The hardest thing for Regulators, etc. to do is to regulate less, which is why the development of the open-innovation, first generation, Internet was a truly, rare achievement!!!...>>> Adam Thierer makes "The Continued Case For Comprehensive Technological Freedom"...>>> Invest & Acquire your "Permissionless Innovation"...NOW / TODAY...>>> Michael....

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