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Spider Robinson(?) has a classic short story about how infinite copyright terms with perfect archiving) will destroy the human psyche when we discover that ther
by judk 13y ago
Spider Robinson(?) has a classic short story about how infinite copyright terms with perfect archiving) will destroy the human psyche when we discover that there really is nothing new under the sun and all creativity is rehash.
- smsm42 13y agoIt won't. Most of mass entertainment is an endless rehash of very narrow set of stories and the human psyche is no worse for it than it has ever been.
- zimpenfish 13y agocf Joseph Campbell's "monomyth" and "The 7 basic plots" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monomyth http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monomyth http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seven_Basic_Plots http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seven_Basic_Plots