Wednesday, June 20, 2012

The Future of Information


There are some seven billion people on earth, with some five billion telephones (many connected to the Internet), and about a billion and a half computers (most at a personal scale, but some very powerful indeed) connected by a wonderful network of wires, fiber optics, satellites and wireless. Experience suggests that the technology is getting faster and more powerful and the software is integrating people into the global ICT network more fully. It has been asked what will emerge from this cyborg like system.

Well, the distribution of wealth and income have become more unequal with the rich much richer than the poor. The Supreme Court has ruled that corporations are people, and that people can donate anonymously as much as they want to a organizations that can run political adds. Apparently millionaires are filling the coffers of those who would publicly advocate the pet views of those rich people. What do you think is emerging?

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