id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt kk-org-5056 The Technium: Better Than Free .html application/xhtml+xml 29595 2316 76 Personalization — A generic version of a concert recording may be free, but if you want a copy that has been tweaked to sound perfect in your particular living room — as if it were preformed in your room — you may be willing to pay a lot. I think ads are only one of the paths that attention takes, and in the long-run, they will only be part of the new ways money is made selling the free. (See my essay on Technology Wants to Be Free.) Even material industries are finding that the costs of duplication near zero, so they too will behave like digital copies. One of the new rules of marketing is to distribute for free, as much of your materials and ideas as possible.Thanks for reminding us that this strategy only works with the underlying generatives in place. ./cache/kk-org-5056.html ./txt/kk-org-5056.txt