An anonymous reader writes "The Times is reporting on an interesting spat between Malcolm Gladwell, author of The "Tipping Point", "Blink" and "Outliers", and Chris Anderson, Wired contributor and author of The Long Tail: Why The Future of Business is Selling Less of More.
The source of conflict is a fascinating review of Anderson's book by Gladwell in the New Yorker, in which Gladwell addresses Anderson's argument that technology applies an inexorable downward pressure on the price of intellectual, property. Regardless of whose position you agree with, the debate is an interesting one, even though I've yet to see an answer to the question that if it really is a race to the bottom, what happens to society once we get there?"
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When there's a ton of supply (or unlimited in digital's case) of course the cost to consumers is free to cheap. I suspect once we get to the bottom, it'll stay there because people will expect free. Maybe some fluctuations when new, innovative features come out, but it'll eventually be free again.
Capitalism in disguise? (Score:1)