A notícia não é nova, mas não deixa de ser interessante. Chris Anderson, aquele que escreveu o “Long Tail”
, agora diz que o futuro dos negócios é o grátis. Isso mesmo, grátis. Bom, em alguns casos sim, mas em outros não é tão grátis assim, mas basicamente alguém vai pagar pelo serviço, direta ou indiretamente. Segue um trecho da reportagem:
Enabled by the miracle of abundance, digital economics has turned traditional economics upside down. Read your college textbook and it’s likely to define economics as “the social science of choice under scarcity.” The entire field is built on studying trade-offs and how they’re made. Milton Friedman himself reminded us time and time again that “there’s no such thing as a free lunch.”
“But Friedman was wrong in two ways. First, a free lunch doesn’t necessarily mean the food is being given away or that you’ll pay for it later — it could just mean someone else is picking up the tab. Second, in the digital realm, as we’ve seen, the main feedstocks of the information economy — storage, processing power, and bandwidth — are getting cheaper by the day. Two of the main scarcity functions of traditional economics — the marginal costs of manufacturing and distribution — are rushing headlong to zip. It’s as if the restaurant suddenly didn’t have to pay any food or labor costs for that lunch.”
A matéria saiu na Wired, e está sensacional. Vale a pena conferir ;)
