Bruce Sterling and I did a keynote at SXSW yesterday on "The Death of Scarcity." The Austin Chronicle sez we done good!
Sterling ended the session by reading gleefully from a news report about a riot in Chiapas that started with a raid by the police on some vendors of pirated software, hinting perhaps at real consumer price wars in our future. Doctorow ended with a comment on media industries, like Disney, and how they will make it in the age of Open Source. Disney will have to rely on its theme parks, for one thing, Doctorow asserted, since physical locations can't be downloaded.
(Thanks, Meryl!)