My column this week is about one of the biggest issues facing average internet users, as well as the companies who service them: whether it will start costing money to send e-mail. Two of my favorite tech/culture nerds, Danny O’Brien and Esther Dyson, recently had a public debate about whether you’ll be paying a nickel to e-mail your sweetie on AOL. Will paying to mail solve the spam problem? Should we get over the old-school monetary economy and move into better economies like the social or attention economy? Find out in this week’s Techsploitation.

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