What we pay for is intellectual capital, cultural production. In a network, we make money the exact opposite way, by pooling risk and sharing the savings. So there is no adversary. The family can be the whole globe. We are witnessing a concentration of power in networks.
Networks inherently destroy markets.
In a network where we pay a subscription, where there are licensing agreements, our relationships risk becoming more and more commercial and less and less social, familial. Noting that the margins are in culture, leisure, sport, the Web, even social causes, he indicated that the new resource is cultural and the great struggle in the 21st century is the struggle between culture and commerce. We have to stop culture from becoming completely commercial. Cultural identity must come before commercial identity. I believe that the revolution of the new technologies is, in a way, much older than we think.