Free is really, you know, the gift of Silicon Valley to the world. It's an economic force, it's a technical force. It's a deflationary force, if not handled right. It is abundance, as opposed to scarcity. — Chris Anderson Copy Share Image
And it's interesting, when you look at the predictions made during the peak of the boom in the 1990s, about e-commerce, or internet traffic, or broadband adoption, or internet advertising, they were all right - they were just wrong in… — Chris Anderson Copy Share Image
“Where numbers only represent real things, you don’t need a number to express the absence of something. It is an abstract concept and only… — Chris Anderson Copy Share Image
“Eastern mysticism embraced both the tangible and the intangible, through the yin and yang of duality. The god Shiva was both the creator and… — Chris Anderson Copy Share Image
“Indeed, the very word “zero” has Indian origins: The Indian word for zero was sunya, meaning “empty,” which the Arabs turned into sifr. Western… — Chris Anderson Copy Share Image
“So everything is an algorithm now. And just as every Google search uses its algorithms to produce a different result for each person searching,… — Chris Anderson Copy Share Image
“professional journalists who are seeing their jobs evaporate are typically those whose employers failed to find a new role in a world of abundant… — Chris Anderson Copy Share Image
“In the atoms economy, which is to say most of the stuff around us, things tend to get more expensive over time. But in… — Chris Anderson Copy Share Image
“But when you want to mark a number on an abacus, what do you do if there are no stones in a column? The… — Chris Anderson Copy Share Image
“2. Atoms would like to be free, too, but they’re not so pushy about it.” — Chris Anderson Copy Share Image
