Chris Anderson
26 July 2011 in DILS2011, SpeakersChris Anderson, Editor-in-Chief of Wired magazine is one of the most knowledgeable, insightful voices at the centre of the new economy. In 2007, Time magazine named him one of the Time 100.
Anderson worked at The Economist for seven years in various positions and served as an editor at two premier science journals, Science and Nature. He has an education background in physics, including research at Los Alamos.
With his New York Times bestseller The Long Tail, he named the rise of the niche as a powerful new force in our economy – why the future of business is selling small quantities of more things to the few people who want those things; how all of those small communities together make up a vast market potential, and how the efficiencies of digital and web technology make this possible.
Anderson’s book, Free: The Future of a Radical Price, another New York Times bestseller, is now available in a reprint edition with the title Free: How Today’s Smartest Businesses Profit by Giving Something for Nothing. In his presentations based on this research, Anderson explains why “free” is the future of business and how to thrive through freeconomics – what business models look like when “free” has emerged as a full-fledge economy.
Credentials
- Editor-in-chief, Wired magazine
- Author, The Long Tail and Free
- Member, Ponko Advisory Board
- Editorial positions at The Economist, Science and Nature
- 2009 Foreign Policy’s Top 100 Global Thinkers
- 2009 Thinkers 50
- Named one of the Time 100 by Time magazine in 2007
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Ever since I got my hands on Free, then The Long Tail – Chris Anderson’s thinking stood out for me.
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