that ICT improves the flow of information,
that information leads to knowledge,
that knowledge leads to truth, and
that the truth will make us free.
T.S. Elliot said:
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
We want to believe that good things go together.
We like democracy; we dislike terrorism.
We believe democracy must work against terrorism.
But this seems not to be true.
Dictators plot how they can use the technology to coerce and corrupt.
Globalization is a great beast, partially dedicated to the service of mankind.
Its nervous system is the global information infrastructure.
It serves through a process of creative destruction.
Huge benefits flow from its great power.
Huge too is the damage inflicted during its clumsy maneuvering.
Why are the poor so often trampled under the foot of Globalization?
Why are those who have, so often those to whom Globalization gives still more?
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