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The Economics of Abundance

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”.

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The Economics of Abundance

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  1. The Economics of Abundance Chris Anderson, Wired

  2. What happens when things get free?

  3. “Waste is Good”

  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 CNN WashPost AP BBC SF Chron Guardian NYT Yomiuri Boston Globe Times UK Forbes Time Fox News Biz Week Wired PBS NPR MNSBC CBS News CBS News CNN Money Telegraph CBC.ca Sydney Morning Herald MTV SJ Merc Reuters IHT WSJ Economist FT ESPN Chic Trib Post-Gazette PR Newswire

  15. Scarcity =

  16. Abundance =

  17. Scarcity: “Guess”

  18. Abundance: “Measure”

  19. Scarcity: “NO”

  20. Abundance: “YES”

  21. BUSINESS MODEL Scarcity Abundance ROI Memo We’ll figure it out

  22. RULES Scarcity Abundance “Everything is forbidden unless it is permitted” “Everything is permitted unless it is forbidden”

  23. SOCIAL MODEL Scarcity Abundance Paternalism (“we know what’s best”) Egalitarianism (“you know what’s best”)

  24. DECISION PROCESS Scarcity Abundance Top-down Bottoms-up

  25. MANAGEMENT STYLE Scarcity Abundance Command and Control Out of Control

  26. Blog: thelongtail.com

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