It's Only the Beginning – Albert Wenger
summary
Claim: the marginal cost of copying is effectively zero marginal cost, and that drives five shifts with concrete examples: Linux has ~100,000 contributors and powers millions of servers and Android handsets; Creative Commons hosts ~1 billion licensed works; 1.5 billion smartphones sell in a year while Xiaomi phones sell for under $100 in seconds; Kickstarter, peer‑to‑peer lending and blockchain as a shared database replace hierarchies; Gangnam Style hits 2 billion views; AI wins at cancer‑cell detection. Policy responses include basic income guarantee and right to be represented by a bot.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Start
- 1:33The Move from Close to Open
- 1:59Creative Commons Project
- 3:26Kickstarter Crowdfunding
- 4:22The Blockchain
- 4:51Going from Normal Distribution to Power Loss
- 7:49Trend from Humans to Machines
- 8:08Why Do We Have Self-Driving Cars
- 10:08Basic Income Guarantee
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