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Maslow’s Hierarchy of Tools
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“I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.” Abraham Harold Maslow The Psychology of Science: A Reconnaissance Maslow - he of the Hierarchy of Needs fame - accurately describes the desire to make the problem fit the solution. Why is this relevant? Well judging from this CNET report on the recent Digital Hollywood conference the film and music industries are still seeing nails: “At a time when the top recording companies appear to be phasing out digital rights management (DRM), the RIAA is predicting that the highly controversial software will make a comeback.
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