Tech Is Too Cheap to Meter: It’s Time to Manage for Abundance, Not Scarcity

In 1969, the Neiman Marcus catalog offered the first home PC , a stylish stand-up model called the Honeywell Kitchen Computer , priced at $10,600 . The picture shows an aproned housewife caressing the machine, with this tag line: “If she can only cook as well as Honeywell can compute.” That image should be on every cubicle in Silicon Valley; it’s a testament both to what technologists get right and what they get badly wrong. Free: The Future of a Radical Price Download the audioboo