anderson on why the future is free.
why there is such as thing as a free lunch in the world of freeconomics. and what moving from a scarcity of shelf-space and resources to that of reputation and attention means. incredibly one of the fathers of the post-scarcity paradigm was non other than karl marx: "In the long run, making programs free is a step toward the post-scarcity world, where nobody will have to work very hard just to make a living. People will be free to devote themselves to activities that are fun, such as programming, after spending the necessary ten hours a week on required tasks such as legislation, family counseling, robot repair and asteroid prospecting."