the future is I.P.: "U.S. Discloses Moves to Stop Piracy of Intellectual Property"

this article by LAURIE J. FLYNN supports my theory that over the next century an increasing percentage of the U.S. GDP will derive from intellectual property. i'm guessing that a reduced portion of that will be from patents/technical IP (due to decreased US investment in education and increased foreign investment in the same), and an increasing portion will be from creative works. the U.S. tradition and culture of creative production, as well as our access to authors from all cultural communities, makes us ideally suited to provide--as we may already--a substantial portion of the creative content consumed by other countries. increased national reliance on the revenue generated by the creative production industry will create more political incentive in the u.s. to take initiatives like the one described in this article.