cliqueclack.com
Human beings continue to shed strong personal bonds for multiple virtual ones.
globalandsocial.com
Digital natives under 25 now see the online world as the real one and the real world an ungainly reflection.
becloudsmart.com
Collaborative commons, “sharing at cost”, is slowly overtaking for-profit capitalism.
Hotels are laying off minority workers as AirBnB soars.
Newspapers, magazines and books cannot compete with the zero marginal cost of a free copy made right on your phone.
Goods and services are increasingly free, paid in scant attention--less than 10 seconds---instead of cash.
Almost half the world is now sending data to each other at near zero cost:
Videos, music, film, arts, news, entertainment and knowledge are all being enjoyed with no barrier.
lifeway.com
Free was supposed to lead us to pay for a premium version but that isn’t happening.
With limited time and so much available free
we have no compelling reason to pay anymore.
thesun.co.uk
This is beginning to influence the analog world.
Soon we’ll be producing our own renewable energy and using personal, near-free energy to 3-D-print products from free internet-distributed plans, products we would have otherwise purchased.
tacticalsolar.com
As home manufacturing grows more sophisticated,
industrial employment will tank.
airwolf3d.com
Encyclopædia Britannica stopped printing in 2010.
Evryone I know is paying for Data as part of their plan.
ReplyDeleteThat's actually false. "Data" fees paid to your carrier are for the use and maintenance of the network they own and operate, but only the transfer and handling, not the files themselves. The carriers are not traditionally rightsholders, as in music or movies or books.
ReplyDeleteFees paid to the carriers for the use of their network do not find their way back to the creators or the rightsholders of the content being shared. The transfer is what costs and can sometimes have a cap, but the data is not purchased. It's taken free. That's the point.