> Access to all information, global communication, books, entertainment (movies, tv shows, music etc), software, and even hardware are getting cheaper at an alarming rate
Yeah those aren't really examples. Books, tv, movies, music: you have to pay to get it (unless you are a pirate). Some software is free, but you have to pay for the, well, paid one. You have to pay for your global communication (internet). And you most certainly have to pay for your hardware. So which of those things is rapidly approaching 0$ (except maybe some apps on appstore)?
Watch a tv show in 2000: Buy a TV, pay for cable, watch TV with many commercials.
Watch a tv show in 2010: Go to your library's computer (or the computer you probably already have), access hulu.com, watch for free with minimal commercials.
Buy a song in 2000: Drive to a store, buy the CD for $15 and cd player
Buy a song in 2010: iTunes or Amazon for $.99.
The point is not that nothing is free, or that it may never be free, but that it's very cheap and very accessible with less effort and fewer different orthogonal pieces of specialized hardware.
>> Some examples please.