Gift Economy (Score 1)

I don't know about "gift economy," but I'll go along with the idea that this "product" that would be the resource of the new IT economy (that I'm basically dreaming up) would be intagible and would be basically human--the ideas--the intellectual manpower. If software is free and nobody can make significant profits from fallen prices in the hardware market, perhaps the support, the information, the idea, the motivation, the application, the endeavor--these would be the profitable things. The irony of that argument would be that while lots of people (mainly ones that don't know anything) say that computers will take over the world (Saturday Night Live's commerical for "Robot Insurance for the Elderly"),
this new economy would emphasis the value of the
human asset. And not just the manpower (like assembly line stuff), but motivated, intuitive,
innovative brain-power. Now wouldn't that be
interesting. Hey, if that makes guys like us rich, bring it on!

There's no place anywhere near this place that's anything like this place, so this must be the place.