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posted by mpawlo
on Wednesday March 03, @02:18AM
from the interesting-people dept.
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It has been ten years since John Perry Barlow published his "The economy of ideas". In that article, Barlow defined the taxonomy of information:
- Information is an activity.
- Information is a life form.
- Information is a relationship.
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Based on these assumptions, Barlow concluded:
'If our property can be infinitely reproduced and instantaneously distributed all over the planet without cost, without our knowledge, without its even leaving our possession, how can we protect it? How are we going to get paid for the work we do with our minds? And, if we can't get paid, what will assure the continued creation and distribution of such work?'
In the interview, conducted by Benjamen Walker, Barlow looks back at the ten years passed since he published his article in the March issue of Wired in 1994.
Listen to the interview with John Perry Barlow.
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