Thanks for sharing! Great article, reminded me of a great speech I read recently that Paul Graham gave in 2005: http://www.paulgraham.com/opensource.html http:

Thanks for sharing! Great article, reminded me of a great speech I read recently that Paul Graham gave in 2005: http://www.paulgraham.com/opensource.html http://www.paulgraham.com/opensource.html The jist is the same as Rushkoff's, and Lanier's conclusion-- that people perform better when they do something they care about enough to do it for free. The paradox with the digital age is that consumers have grown accustomed to not paying for digital goods -- and artists have grown accustomed to settling for any attention they can get, which means marketing gimmicks, and settling for the lowest common denominator far too often for authors of original content. Lanier covers this well, for sure: http://edge.org/conversation/the-local-global-flip http://edge.org/conversation/the-local-global-flip