On the one hand information wants to be expensive, because it’s so valuable. The right information in the right place just changes your life. On the other hand, information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time. So you have these two fighting against each other.
Information wants to be free – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I was kind of sick of always hearing people quote “information wants to be free” as if it’s a sacred law and that they kept forgetting the other part of the sentence where Stewart Brand mentions that information wants to be expensive.
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