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This is a question about the future of capitalism, the economic system that arose from scarcity. Ours is the era of expanded copyright systems and enormous portfolios of dubious patents, of trade secrecy, the privatisation of the fruits of publicly funded research, and other phenomena that we collectively term "intellectual property". As technology has made a new abundance of knowledge possible, politicians, lawyers, corporations and university administrations have become more and more determined to preserve its scarcity.

Take the open access movement, which has campaigned to ensure that scientific articles are freely available to the public, who ultimately paid for the research with their taxes. Historically, most scientific writing was confined to expensive scholarly journals and essentially available only to people with university affiliations. Some publishers resisted the open access movement, but trends are against them. In March this year, for example, the US Congress made permanent a requirement that all research funded by the National Institutes of Health be openly accessible, and other countries are following. Within a decade or two, it is safe to say that all scientific literature will be online, free and searchable. Journal publishers will still be paid, but at a different point in the chain.

而我看到的景象几乎是一样的：前两次举手的各占两成，无法判断者占六成。这样的结论告诉我们，中国的企业家们不知道自己处在怎样的一个环境中。

失去的意思有三层。一是，他们对扑面而来的危机无能为力，根本不知道如何应对，倒闭、歇业、出逃、缩小经营规模成了惟一的选择；二是，在中央政府力图被经济拉出泥潭的过程中，他们成了真正的“旁观者”，巨额的“铁公基”投资与他们几乎毫无关系，产业振兴计划的受益效应也非常的虚幻，有力使不得，有钱不敢使，前景不明，政策不清，陷入了特别的焦虑，这是二十年来第一次发生这样的景象----中国的民营企业集团在经济复苏过程中显得无足轻重；三是，他们对下半年的经济走势充满了彷徨，通货膨胀的泡沫眼看着已经起来了，可是，这与他们有什么关系呢？这是一个好的泡沫，还是坏的泡沫？

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