Better than Free
Originally published in Better Than Free by Kevin Kelly., founding editor-in-chief of WIRED magazine.
Translation "Better than Free": Nanazaemon's Notebook
When replication cost goes down, contents becomes [free
In fact, many of the articles on the Internet are now free.
- [Easily replicable content is of little value.
As a result, Cannot be duplicated the value of the thing increases
- timeliness
- The immediate availability of what is made.
- individualization personalize
- Modifications should be made to suit the buyer's needs.
- This is also the way to produce intellectual production in conversations with individuals
- interpretation
- Support and commentary
- authenticity
- Confidence in Quality
- Ease of access
- To be able to take it out as soon as you want to take it out.
- materialization
- Even if the music data is free, the experience is different depending on whether it can be played back in good sound
- patron
- Someone wants to pay as a token of appreciation for the creator.
- Ease of Finding
- If you can't notice existence, you don't create value, so there is value in creating opportunities to notice existence.
In this networking economy, money does not go through the channel of copying. [Money goes through the channel of attention, and attention has a two-way path to and from.
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