MIT professor's 'sticky information' theory hailed as essential reading for the AI era

Readers are recommending MIT professor Eric von Hippel's 1994 paper on 'sticky information' — costly-to-transfer information — calling it one of the most important yet underappreciated theories, and essential rereading for the AI era.

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