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Podcast: thinkfuture: technology, philosophy and the future
Episode: 602 How Free Is A Bad Thing with John Marshall @ Free Is Bad
Description: The free web is hurting our personal privacy and our access to truth. And because a healthy democracy depends on an informed citizenry, that's hurting the body politic. But if we're not willing to pay for email, search, entertainment, and facts, somebody else will. It doesn't have to be this way. - Web pioneers tried to invent new payment methods. - Google’s founders were dead set against advertising. - Advertising technology was an unintended accident of code. Yet here we are today, suffering from an ad-funded web. Why? Because we've insisted that “Information wants to be free,” and we're willing t...