Tim O'Reilly On Big Data, CS Education, and the Future of Print

Posted by Soulskill on Friday February 20, 2015 @05:23AM from the timbits-of-wisdom dept.

M-Saunders writes: How do we take advantage of big data without putting our privacy at risk? Should everyone be able to code? And how much life is still in the market for printed books and publications? Linux Voice put these questions to Tim O'Reilly, the founder of O'Reilly media, and the man who helped to popularize the terms Open Source and Web 2.0. ("Should everybody be a professional coder? No way. Should everybody be able to do more than just use a GUI? Absolutely. Should people be able to automate operations of a computer? Absolutely.") Despite the amount of "free" (or advert-supported) content out there, O'Reilly still believes there's plenty of money to be made: "I think that the willingness of people to pay for things that delight them will not go away."

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Price matters. by geekmux · 2015-02-20 05:55 · Score: 3, Informative

"I think that the willingness of people to pay for things that delight them will not go away."
That's an interesting theory.
Tell everyone that ad-supported hardware will be going away, and that new fancy cell phone will cost $900 on top of the contract.
App stores will no longer subsidize with advertising, so you will pay for every app that delights you.
Yes, let's just see how much willingness is still out there.