Gizmodo reports that monthly information subscriptions and fees can easily run to $500 or more nowadays. A lot of people today probably spend more on information than they spend on food. The reason we fork out all that dough is (I’m going to whisper the rest of this sentence) because we place a high monetary value on the content we receive as a result of those subscriptions and fees. – Information wants to be free my ass (Rough Type)
It’s interesting to think about how much we do pay for information – especially since most people think of information on the Internet as free. And there’s always a clammer when a site that’s offered information for free starts to charge for it (ex: NY Times). But, in reality, we already do pay quite a bit for most of the information we access – although a good portion of that goes to the broadcasting technology (cable, wifi, cellular) rather than the content providers (depending on the medium). It should be interesting to see if that relationship changes as people are able to get information from multiple media. Also of note – people do assign value based on how much they pay for something.
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