The Economy Of Ideas

A 1994 essay in Wired by John Perry Barlow. "The economy of the future will be based on relationship rather than possession. It will be continuous rather than sequential."

As a memory jog, the headers from the information taxonomy section:


 * INFORMATION IS AN ACTIVITY
 * Information Is a Verb, Not a Noun.
 * Information Is Experienced, Not Possessed.
 * Information Has to Move.
 * Information Is Conveyed by Propagation, Not Distribution.


 * INFORMATION IS A LIFE FORM
 * Information Wants to Be Free.
 * Information Replicates into the Cracks of Possibility.
 * Information Wants to Change.
 * Information Is Perishable.


 * INFORMATION IS A RELATIONSHIP
 * Meaning Has Value and Is Unique to Each Case.
 * Familiarity Has More Value than Scarcity.
 * Exclusivity Has Value.
 * Point of View and Authority Have Value.
 * Time Replaces Space.

Hi Pete! These are great. Would it make sense to collect such principles, have a table of them, with attributions? Andrius