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by criddell 1669 days ago
"Info wants to be free, but it also wants to be expensive"

Isn't that one of the things the NFT people are working on?

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I was mostly quoting it to reference it's context. The full quote (by Stewart Brand) is:

“On the one hand information wants to be expensive, because it's so valuable. The right information in the right place just changes your life.

On the other hand, information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time.

So you have these two fighting against each other.”

So yes, NFTs are absolutely one of the myriad of (stupid) ways we're trying to grapple with this conflict as a society.