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““So, back to the future. Today we are seeing a return to a new sort of cottage industry. Once again, new technology is giving individuals the power over the means of production, allowing for bottom-up entrepreneurship and distributed innovation. Just as the Web’s democratization of the means of production in everything from software to music made it possible to create an empire in a dorm room or a hit album in a bedroom, so the new democratized tools of digital manufacturing will be tomorrow’s spinning jennies.””

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“7. Sooner or later you will compete with free.”

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“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…

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“4. You can make money from free.”

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“Eastern mysticism embraced both the tangible and the intangible, through the yin and yang of duality. The god Shiva was both the creator and…

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“Indeed, the very word “zero” has Indian origins: The Indian word for zero was sunya, meaning “empty,” which the Arabs turned into sifr. Western…

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“So everything is an algorithm now. And just as every Google search uses its algorithms to produce a different result for each person searching,…

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“professional journalists who are seeing their jobs evaporate are typically those whose employers failed to find a new role in a world of abundant information. By and large, that means newspapers, which are an industry that will probably have to reinvent itself as dramatically as music labels. The top tier (the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, etc.) will probably…

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“9. free makes other things more valuable.”

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“In the atoms economy, which is to say most of the stuff around us, things tend to get more expensive over time. But in…

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“But when you want to mark a number on an abacus, what do you do if there are no stones in a column? The number 60 is one wedge in the sixties column and no wedges in the ones column. How do you write “no wedges”? The Babylonians needed a placeholder that represented nothing. They had to, in effect, invent…

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“2. Atoms would like to be free, too, but they’re not so pushy about it.”

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“1. If it’s digital, sooner or later it’s going to be free.”

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