From a link that I saw on Slashdot:
http://shirky.com/writings/fame_vs_fortune.html
I've always though "micropayments" were an evil concept !! I can hardly say the word! :)
Not evil but foolish. There was a cypherpunk meeting two summers back which attempted to identify where developers, who wanted to succeed in digital cash, should focus. Tim May drew a chart which mapped cost on one access and anonymity on the other to explore one aspect of the demand of digital cash. He was pretty convincing in showing that, at least for digital cash systems, the only place which seemed to make sense is for higher value, more anonymous, systems.
He derided micro payments as focusing on the "millicent ghetto" of electronic money for which there seemed to be no demand that would create volume and profit.
steve
"...for every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong."
-- H.L. Mencken
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