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Introduction

by John Perry Barlow

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on information as "content" that doesn't have a "container" and so can be abundant and thus free. he wrote an article for an ancestor of Wired magazine called "The Economy of Ideas" or "Wine without Bottles". he's one of the founding members of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (along with Mitch Kapor and John Gilmore)

? (2008). Introduction. In Doctorow, C. Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future. Tachyon Publications, pp. 8-14

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[...] I argued that it would be deucedly difficult to continue to apply the Adam Smithian economic principles regarding the relationship between scarcity and value to any products that could be reproduced and distributed infinitely at zero cost. I proposed, moreover, that, to the extent that anything might be scarce in such an economy, it would be attention, and that invisibility would be a bad strategy for increasing attention. That, in other words, familiarity might convey more value to information that scarcity would.

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[...] I argued that it would be deucedly difficult to continue to apply the Adam Smithian economic principles regarding the relationship between scarcity and value to any products that could be reproduced and distributed infinitely at zero cost. I proposed, moreover, that, to the extent that anything might be scarce in such an economy, it would be attention, and that invisibility would be a bad strategy for increasing attention. That, in other words, familiarity might convey more value to information that scarcity would.

—p.10 missing author 7 years, 5 months ago