The Angry Drunk

Full dis­clo­sure: I have not read, and have no inten­tion of read­ing Wired edi­tor Chris Anderson’s new book “Free: The Future of a Radical Price.” This is mainly because I think that Anderson is a deluded cyber­topian free­tard, and I have no inten­tion of giv­ing money to some­one who is exhort­ing the rest of us to give our work away for free. I’ll read Chris’s tripe the very day he decides to post it online free of charge.

Even though I don’t rec­om­mend read­ing Anderson’s bab­ble, I do highly rec­om­mend read­ing Malcom Gladwell’s evis­cer­a­tion of Anderson’s “logic” in his review of the book in The New Yorker. Gladwell does an excel­lent job of expos­ing Anderson’s cyber­topian fan­tasy for the garbage that it is.

hat tip to Daring Fireball for the link

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Update: I just found out that Anderson is releas­ing a free edi­tion of Free. Fuck it, it’s still tripe.