Over at thoughtstorms, they are discussing a new digital divide:

In the future we’ll see the world increasingly divided into 2 classes : the information-rich haves, and the information-poor have-nots.
But ironically the exploited, impoverished, have-nots, will be those who are duped into paying increasingly more for decreasingly valuable proprietary information products.
Meanwhile the cash rich, information rich will increasingly rely on superior, free information products : open source software such as Linux, public service programming from the BBC, the online communities of enthusiasts in every field, united through blogging, mailing lists and other discussion forums etc.

why is there no free entertainment when there is an abundance of free knowledge? i think knowledge accrues, while entertainment does not. entertainment atoms do not build upon each other in the same way that knowledge atoms do. maybe this is the return of a protestant work ethic?
only those who produce will prevail

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