On Technology, the Future, and Money
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| The Free Culture movement: Between Open Source Software, the Creative
| Commons, and various sources of free knowledge, there's a lot that people
| can take advantage of online without any need for money (and people can
| often even 'remix' it for free, as well). It's quite true that free
| software and content is not a magic bullet in all contexts, since the
| people who make it tend to scratch only certain types of itches: there
| aren't many open source accounting packages, nor are there any creative
| commons-licensed top-40 radio hits or open source cars, for reasons of
| motivation, economics, and physical possibility, respectively. But the
| movement toward producing free, open-source things is growing in strength
| and scope: in the short term, we can expect better free software and more
| creative-commons-licensed content, and perhaps in the longer term, free,
| open-source genomes for useful organisms/biomachines and free, open-source
| blueprints for molecular (nano) manufacturing. And the more good free
| stuff that's out there, the less important money becomes.
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http://moderndragons.blogspot.com/2006/06/money.html
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