With manufacturing comes excess and with excess comes economics, telling us how to save ourselves from our all too human tendency to reproduce things like crazy. But now that the computer has introduced the ultimate manufacturing machine, how can the content industry survive based on the economics of finite supply and demand? Sources as diverse as Reason Magazine, the artist formerly known as Prince and OneSource point the way towards a post-industrial model for building premium content value that moves away from mass production and towards creating ever-larger presences of unique information and experiences.
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