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Gladwell Calls out Insipid Digital Utopia caught my eye because I'm interested in all things Gladwellian. Gladwell reviewed Chris Anderson's, Free: The Future of a Radical Price. Anderson believes that digital information will eventually all be free. Gladwell contends that this is wishful thinking. He compares this thinking to claims in the 50's that nuclear power would be free. The people in the 50's were wrong because they didn't consider the cost of infrastucture, distribution, waste disposal etc... and Anderson is wrong too because he can't begin to consider all aspects of digital distribution. Gladwell concludes by saying, "The only iron law here is the one too obvious to write a book about, which is that the digital age has so transformed the ways in which things are made and sold that there are no iron laws."