World After Capital

By definition there are no prices for things that have not yet been invented. Take aviation as an example. Until heavier then air flight was invented there were no prices for airplanes or airtravel. It was simply impossible. There is no price right now for an immortality treatment. Or for quantum computing at scale. We do not have enough knowledge to do either. How much attention should humanity devote to these? There are no prices to guide that allocation.

.. Corporations lobbied heavily to lengthen copyright and strengthen copyright protection as part of the Transpacific Partnership (TPP). Scientific publishers such as Elsevier have used these protections to make access to knowledge so expensive that even universities as wealthy as Harvard can no longer afford the subscriptions

Copyright notices for open source projects

So what date should you use?

There’s precedent for this practice. If you ever look at the copyright page of a book, it will likely say copyright 2001, 2004, 2006-2007, etc., noting each year of publication. Here, the same legal theory is at play, with the digital project being unbridled from the confines of the physical world, and thus publishing a bit more frequently, likely being “published”, the year the project was started, and every year thereafter.