Information Wants To Be Free. Information also wants to be expensive.
âStewart Brand
There is a tension inherent in the economic nature of data.
Data can be endlessly copied. Thatâs its nature. This will drive down the value of data under pretty much every economic system thatâs realistically available to us. Thatâs what the anthropomorphic âwants to be freeâ means.
Data is…