For anyone interested in more thoughts on copyright and (the killing of) culture, I highly recommend this video on the Amen break: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SaFTm2bcac

Additionally, this comic is informative and fun: http://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/comics/

>Well when you have replicators and automation to do all the work, you have more time to focus on other things.

The problem is, business models will probably bill you for time of use while you rent-out your replication.

Technology is great, but as long as their implementers seek profit over ideals, there's a pretty big obstacle to your utopia.

That's fine, though. Put down a basic income. People can live reasonably as they like, and then work on top of that because people get bored. Putting down a BI isn't going to stop people from having money; you're still going to have venture funding. Let someone take a risk on your idea. You deal with all the snafus and shenanigans of today, except neither of you are risking life itself. Worst case scenario, you live comfortably without having achieved anything.

Because this University of California professor runs the entire Coursera website.

has anyone here actually attempted to use the site, or just reading about how it fails? The only commenter I've read was using IE.

I just signed up and had no problems.

I tried signing up the day it launched and ran into issues with 404s. After 3 or 4 days, I was finally able to create an account. When I went back the following day to login for the first time to choose a plan, I couldn't login.

I get a message saying my login credentials are incorrect. I hit the forgot password link and enter in my username. It finds my account and sends me a password reset email. I click on the link in the password reset email and it takes me back to healthcare.gov with an error message that my account can't be found, which obviously makes no sense because they just used my account to send me an email.

Live Chat has provided zero help, only stating that it's probably a performance issue and to try back later.

One odd thing is that the registration page says you a need a lower case and upper case character, a number and at least one symbol from a pre-defined set. To my knowledge, I didn't use an uppercase character, nor do I use one when do the password reset, which properly sends me an email. I feel like maybe the login portion is properly validating the username requirements, but the registration didn't which is what has left me in this mess.

Sorry, this site isn't worth $600 million.