Presentation given at Pop!Tech 2006

1. THE ECONOMICS OF ABUNDANCE Chris Anderson, Wired

2. What happens when things get free?

4. Alan Kay, Xerox PARC (1972)

5. “ Waste Transistors”

6. “ 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?)

7. “ Waste Bandwidth”

8. For the first time in history, complexity is free

9. Scarcity Abundance

10. Scarcity Abundance

11. Scarcity Abundance

12. Scarcity Abundance

13. Scarcity Abundance

14. 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

15. Scarcity =

16. Abundance =

17. Scarcity: “Guess”

18. Abundance: “Measure”