Show threadStrypeyAug 24, 2019
@natecull that piece by Dr #BrookeMagnanti was insightful in so many ways. I posted one quote from it on the fediverse earlier today. The history of the #InfoMesa is a wonderful example of #DouglasRushkoff's 'Thowing Rocks ...' thesis about VC distorting both technological and economic development. Love that she mentions #BenGoldacre's work, and her discussion of the corrosive effect of "IP" on universities and on openness and colloboration in the sciences is bang on.
StrypeyAug 24, 2019
"#OpenEye is rather a larger company than when I worked there, with sprawling main office and branches in five countries. It is one of the few vestiges of the late 90s Info Mesa still hanging on, in spite of — or perhaps because of — not taking VC funding and not offering public shares."
- #BrookeMagnanti, PhD
https://medium.com/@belledejour_uk/the-drugs-won-t-work-659c6d7a4ac1
The Drugs Won’t Work

The Rise and Fall of Rational Drug Design