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leonard@mimsy.umd.edu (Leonard Dickens) writes:
> No, the real idea for futurists to worry about is this: unlike *every*
> important economic activity in the history of the world up until now,
> digitized information "production" is an activity with (potentially)
> zero marginal cost per unit made.  That is to say, once the initial
> investment (programming) is made, there is an effectively infinite
> supply of product.  Cars, food, and man-hours of service time are
> *not* like this.

Music, books, and films are, however.  So much for "unlike *every* important
economic activity".

>                     Obviously then even with a fair profit included,
> if a program will be used millions of times, it should cost each user
> practically nothing.

So presumably you think movies, albums and books should cost practically
nothing?


mathew

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