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Information wants to be free*
Saved by sari
There’s gold in the data that Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft have about us. And that gold will be worth a lot less to them if the knowledge that produces it is shared with everyone.
A universal law of economics says the moment something becomes free and ubiquitous, its position in the economic equation suddenly inverts. When nighttime electrical lighting was new and scarce, it was the poor who burned common candles. Later, when electricity became easily accessible and practically free, our preference flipped and candles at din
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