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Information wants to be free.' so goes the saying. stewart brand, the founder of the whole earth catalog, seems to have said it first.i say that information doesn't deserve to be free.cybernetic totalists love to think of the stuff as if it were alive and had its own ideas and ambitions. but what if information is inanimate? what if it's even less than inanimate, a mere artifact of human thought? what if only humans are real, and information is not?...information is alienated experience.
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Jaron Lanier
Information wants to be free.' so goes the saying. stewart brand, the founder of the whole earth catalog, seems to have said it first.i say that information doesn't deserve to be free.cybernetic totalists love to think of the stuff as if it were alive and had its own ideas and ambitions. but what if information is inanimate? what if it's even less than inanimate, a mere artifact of human thought? what if only humans are real, and information is not?...information is alienated experience.
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