Save the Gizmos!

EFF has created the Endangered Gizmos list which lists technological innovations that are either Extinct, Endangered or Saved.

They depict Hollywood and the record companies as poachers out to drive these innovations to extinction, or at least to neuter them, all for the sake of their bottom line. They use government-backed technology mandates, lawsuits, international treaties, and behind-the-scenes negotiations in seemingly obscure technology standards groups.

I am sure we are all familiar with 1984 and other dark technological futures where the government or big businesses monitor our every move and tell us what we can and cannot do. This is the beginning of that future. Letting the government and big businesses dictate technological innovation instead of letting the market decide just make these entities more powerful while taking our freedoms away.

I urge you to adopt and nurture these endangered gizmos today, before they join their brothers in extinction.