If I didn't fundamentally believe that I wouldn't be doing what I'm doing. I think the future is a serious business now. I don't think it's a cultural obsession. They've been there, now they're leaving. I think you could trace the intellectual presumptions of Wired directly into the present-day hegemony of business.
Information wants to be free has now turned into free flow of information.
As long as it's uninterrupted in its flow between marketer and customer, between datasets, that's what free means. Free to go where it belongs in an efficient market, not 'no charge anywhere' because no charge anywhere is insane. Barlow now, he's now trying to make a business model for the musician business - as opposed to the music business. And if its not money it's exchange of value, and America for better and for worse is an entirely business-driven culture. Business is culture in America.