TOC 2011: Kevin Kelly, "Better than Free: How Value Is Generated in a Free Copy World"

[daviddalbylive]

Given that fiat currencies are IOU's everything is free already ;-) we just have to get the old fart bankers to realise that a society is built from the ground up not top down.

[dylanhoggyt]

"The only value is that which cannot be copied easily." #21:40.

KK descibes the attributes we are willing to pay for as immediacy, personalisation, authenticity, attention, interpretation, accessibility, emodiment and findability.

I think some of these attributes offer more value than others, in particular personalisation, attention and embodiment which really by definition cannot be copied or pirated.

[Cjay858]

@evbogue & @gwenbell like this...

[neuristic]

Awesome.

Appropriately, I read Kelly's What Technology Wants on my iPod touch.

[Ericwang215]

Great!

[gleonhard]

Kevin totally rocks. Listen to him. Now.

[sachamm]

This guy gets it. About time we see the IP industries looking at the new reality we live in instead of trying to force the old world model and suing everyone in sight when it doesn't work.