The Economics of Abundance

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+ swapvid 5 months ago
Excellent.

It would be better if I can download this. Don’t understand why not.
+ Kapil Ohri 4 years ago
Interesting ! Food for thought !!!
+ Jonathan Boutelle 4 years ago
This is Chris Anderson’s talk at Pop!Tech. It had a couple of font issues: we’re working on that! Still great stuff though.

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THE ECONOMICS OF ABUNDANCE Chris Anderson, Wired
What happens when things get free?
- “ Waste is Good”
Alan Kay, Xerox PARC (1972)
“ Waste Transistors”
“ Waste Storage” “ Over 2775.261837 megabytes (and counting) of free storage so you'll never need to delete another message” (Remember “Your mailbox is full”? What was that about?)
“ Waste Bandwidth”
For the first time in history, complexity is free
Scarcity Abundance
Scarcity Abundance
Scarcity Abundance
Scarcity Abundance
Scarcity Abundance
The Long Tail of Media NYT CNN WashPost AP BBC SF Chron Guardian Yomiuri Wired Boston Globe Times UK Forbes Time Fox News Biz Week PBS NPR MNSBC MTV CBS News CBS News CNN Money Telegraph CBC.ca Sydney Morning Herald SJ Merc Chic Trib Reuters IHT WSJ Economist FT ESPN Post-Gazette PR Newswire
Scarcity =
Abundance =
Scarcity: “Guess”
Abundance: “Measure”
- Scarcity:
- “ NO”
- Abundance:
- “ YES”
BUSINESS MODEL
- ROI Memo
- We’ll figure it out
- Scarcity
- Abundance
RULES
- “ Everything is forbidden unless it is permitted”
- “ Everything is permitted unless it is forbidden”
- Scarcity
- Abundance
SOCIAL MODEL
- Paternalism
- (“we know what’s best”)
- Egalitarianism (“you know what’s best”)
- Scarcity
- Abundance
DECISION PROCESS
- Top-down
- Bottoms-up
- Scarcity
- Abundance
MANAGEMENT STYLE
- Command and Control
- Out of Control
- Scarcity
- Abundance
- Blog: thelongtail.com