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The '''Carr-Benkler wager''' is between [[Yochai Benkler]] and [[Nicholas Carr]] about whether the most influential sites on the Internet will be peer-produced or price-incentivized systems.
The '''Carr-Benkler wager''' is between [[Yochai Benkler]] and [[Nicholas Carr]] over who will provide Internet content in the future. Benkler believes that by 2010 the majority of content will be provided by volunteers in what Benkler calls [[Commons-based peer production]], as in [[Wikipedia]], [[Digg]], [[Flickr]] and [[YouTube]].<ref>{{cite news |first=Justin|last=Fox|authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Getting Rich off Those Who Work for Free |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1590440-1,00.html |work= |publisher=[[Time (magazine)]] |date=[[February 15]], [[2007]] |accessdate=2007-03-03 }}</ref> Carr argues that the trend will favor content provided by paid workers, as in most traditional news outlets.▼
The wager was proposed by Benkler in July 2006 in a comment to a blog post where Carr criticizes Benkler's views about volunteer peer-production.<ref>{{cite web | first=Nicholas | last=Carr | title=Calacanis's wallet and the Web 2.0 dream | url=http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2006/07/jason_calacanis.php | accessdate=2007-10-24}}</ref>
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