Live access to these distant 'eyes and ears' will be much easier to cordon than access to static bundles of stored but easily reproducible information. Esther Dyson sums up the business realities implicit in this new order. This is not a moral decision but a business strategy . The end-users, according to her scheme, might be given access to works on the Net for free. The challenge for advertisers is not being paid, but making sure that their advertising messages are inextricable from the content.
Value is in activity.
A total synthesis of all human knowledge will not result in fantastic amounts of data, or in huge libraries filled with books. Information is process. There's no value any more in amount, in quantity, in explanation. Value is in activity. Content is no longer a noun.