What if Social Media and Photo Sharing sites paid YOU?
What if Social Media and Photo Sharing sites paid YOU?
Is social-community-as-privacy-abuse the ultimate business model, or will a more cooperative, revenue-sharing model ultimately win out?
"...the very first conception of digital networked communication foresaw a way out of this trap. I am referring Ted Nelson’s early work, dating back to 1960. The first idea of networked digital media included a universal micropayment system, so that people would be paid when data they added to a network was used by someone else."
"If the biggest computers had to pay for information, they wouldn’t cease to exist. Instead big computers would have to earn their way by providing new kinds of value. Spying and manipulating would no longer be business plans, because the raw materials would no longer be free."
"In fact, the owners of the best computers would do fine in a world of monetized information, because that would be a world with a growing economy. In a world of free information, the economy will start to shrink as automation rises radically, later in this century. This is because in an ultra-automated economy, there won’t be much to trade other than information."
"But this is the most important thing: A monetized information economy will create a strong middle class out of information sharing- and a strong middle class must be able to outspend the elite tip of an economy for democracy to endure. While the open information ideal feels empowering, it is actually enriching those with the best computers to such an extreme that it is gradually undermining both markets and democracy."
http://qz.com/87795/free-information-as-great-as-it-sounds-will-enslave-us-all/
When the first community comes along that pays YOU to participate, cuts you in and compensates you for whatever value they derive from your photos, your interaction, your interests, your information, would you switch?
Preposterous? Not at all. Google AdWords rewards Webmasters now. Affiliate programs are a primitive form of reward-for-content. Companies making billions off of content could easily cut the providers of their content in on the cash flow. What if one environment could successfully attract the best of everything? Music, photos, videos... and pay those leading content creators to create more?
There are certainly ways to screw it up. Abandon objectivity and promote weaker content and false experts for example. But the possibility, the opportunity, remains for the taking.
http://qz.com/87795/free-information-as-great-as-it-sounds-will-enslave-us-all/
Is social-community-as-privacy-abuse the ultimate business model, or will a more cooperative, revenue-sharing model ultimately win out?
"...the very first conception of digital networked communication foresaw a way out of this trap. I am referring Ted Nelson’s early work, dating back to 1960. The first idea of networked digital media included a universal micropayment system, so that people would be paid when data they added to a network was used by someone else."
"If the biggest computers had to pay for information, they wouldn’t cease to exist. Instead big computers would have to earn their way by providing new kinds of value. Spying and manipulating would no longer be business plans, because the raw materials would no longer be free."
"In fact, the owners of the best computers would do fine in a world of monetized information, because that would be a world with a growing economy. In a world of free information, the economy will start to shrink as automation rises radically, later in this century. This is because in an ultra-automated economy, there won’t be much to trade other than information."
"But this is the most important thing: A monetized information economy will create a strong middle class out of information sharing- and a strong middle class must be able to outspend the elite tip of an economy for democracy to endure. While the open information ideal feels empowering, it is actually enriching those with the best computers to such an extreme that it is gradually undermining both markets and democracy."
http://qz.com/87795/free-information-as-great-as-it-sounds-will-enslave-us-all/
When the first community comes along that pays YOU to participate, cuts you in and compensates you for whatever value they derive from your photos, your interaction, your interests, your information, would you switch?
Preposterous? Not at all. Google AdWords rewards Webmasters now. Affiliate programs are a primitive form of reward-for-content. Companies making billions off of content could easily cut the providers of their content in on the cash flow. What if one environment could successfully attract the best of everything? Music, photos, videos... and pay those leading content creators to create more?
There are certainly ways to screw it up. Abandon objectivity and promote weaker content and false experts for example. But the possibility, the opportunity, remains for the taking.
http://qz.com/87795/free-information-as-great-as-it-sounds-will-enslave-us-all/
krinteresting post
ReplyDeleteFYI a nice post clarifying Google's involvement in and response to the NSA gathering of data on millions of Americans' cell phone call records and allegedly some Internet activity as well:
ReplyDeletehttps://plus.google.com/103389452828130864950/posts/huwQsphBron