Chris Andersen, who is the current editor of Wired Magazine and author of The Long Tail is proposing a new law he calls The Andersen Switch:
In the analog-to-digital conversion things that are paid will become free and vice versa.
This is a modern twist on the Negroponte switch
I have to say, this makes sense to me as I sit here and read the Sunday papers online for free and watch cricket on pay-TV.
While I agree – it sounds strangely like a line out of George orwells 1984 Newspeak.
War is peace
Freedom is slavery
etc
Maybe its the way anderson worded it..