Chris Anderson Discusses The Four Kinds Of Free

Chris Andersen is a regular contributor to WIRED magazine and author of the Long Tail. He will be hosting the upcoming Free! Summit which will be held on May 11th out in San Mateo, CA. I consider him to be a new-economic guru, someone who forecasts our shifts in thinking years before we actually make the changes. As an example of what I mean, I am going to include Chris’s 2002 TED Conference talk, in which he describes his vision for turning the for-profit TED organization into a non-profit and why he feels it will succeed: