The idea of resource depletion has been a common theme throughout much of history, especially in the last century. Look at Amazon deforestation, groundwater supplies, coffee plants, fishing grounds, ...

Fake news, disinformation and conspiracy theories abound. If you want to understand the crazy, mixed-up, 21st century information ecosystem, think about it as what is called a “tragedy of the commons.

First principles of thermodynamics imply that metabolic pathways are faced with a trade-off between the rate and yield of ATP production. Simple evolutionary models argue that this trade-off generates ...

Sustainability is one of the first areas enterprises will reduce spending in response to inflated economic environments, according to new research from Gartner. Senior Director Analyst Brendan ...

At the risk of sounding Chicken Little-like, we hypothesize that the Internet is heading toward a “tragedy of the commons”. The tragedy of the commons plays out when a collective system is destroyed ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Fifty years ago, in December, 1968, Garrett ...

If climate scientists are right about global warming, we are cooked. The world community will no more likely be able to prevent the emergence of the predicted “Climate Armageddon” than it was able to ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! MARCH 3, 2005 Digital Future: Copyright Issues Lawrence Lessig, professor of law at Stanford Law School and founder ...