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Kevin Kelly: What can’t be copied?

Started by mathewi · 7 months ago

Former Wired editor Kevin Kelly has a very perceptive essay up that is apparently part of a book he’s working on called Technium, and in it he describes the Internet as a giant copying machine — a network that distributes information far and wide, and in the process of do ... Continue reading »

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  • Very interesting... You can already see these concepts taking hold in the marketplace once you put things into this perspective!
  • Kevin Kelly has some excellent points, but I keep having visions of going to a restaurant and the waiter telling me, "Your food is free, but it will cost you to have it cooked and delivered to your table."

    It's not the same thing, I know, but it seems to me that it's just repackaging some old concepts when the end result is the same: the consumer will still pay because the generic "free" product is inferior. Assuming that they will still want the product.

    I need to think about this. I'm probably missing something.

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