Internet och överflödsmentaliteten

Ur en ypperlig artikel i Wired tillika utdrag ur artikelförfattaren Chris Andersons bok ’Free’ (min emfas):

All those random videos on YouTube are just dandelion seeds in search of a fertile ground on which to land. In a sense, we’re “wasting video” in search of better video, exploring the potential space of what the moving picture can be. YouTube is a vast collective experiment to invent the future of television, one thoughtless, wasteful upload at a time. Sooner or later, through YouTube and other sharing sites, every video that can be made will be made, and every person who can be a filmmaker will become one. Every possible niche will be explored. If you lower the costs of exploring a space, you can be more indiscriminate in how you do it.

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If you’re controlling a scarce resource, like the prime-time broadcast schedule, you have to be discriminating.