[LINK] Tim O'Reilly on SOPA/PIPA: Solving The Wrong Problem

Wed Jan 18 09:31:11 AEDT 2012

On 18/01/2012 8:58 AM, Kim Holburn wrote:
> https://plus.google.com/107033731246200681024/posts/BEDukdz2B1r
>
>> I found myself profoundly disturbed by something that seems to me to go to the root of the problem in Washington: the failure to correctly diagnose the problem we are trying to solve, but instead to accept, seemingly uncritically, the claims of various interest groups.

It's not as though this is a new phenomena:

"We fail more often because we solve the wrong problem than because we 
get the wrong solution to the right problem”
Russell Ackoff, 1974.

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