The Information Economy
Have you read any Po Bronson?
More than 10 years ago he published, and I read, 'Bombardiers'. Detail on Po, 'Bombardiers', and his subsequent work can be found here http://www.pobronson.com/
I like the Three Laws of the Information Economy from ‘Bombardiers’.
"He sat down at the small round table in the kitchen and tried to gather his thoughts. The First Law of Information Economics was simple: Knowledge Is Power. The second law was only a little more complicated: Knowledge is not a candy bar. If you eat a candy bar. the candy bar is gone. And if you give it to a friend, then he gets to eat it and you don't. But with knowledge, you can't use it up and you can't get rid of it by giving it away. This leads to the corollary to the Second Law: Word travels fast. Knowledge spreads much faster and more easily than any physical product, mostly because telling your friends doesn’t make you any poorer. If knowledge spreads effortlessly to everyone, and if knowledge is power, then one logical conclusion was that everyone would have power. The other logical conclusion was that the power of knowledge was fleeting and temporary and we would all be powerless…
1. Knowledge is Power!
2. Knowledge is not a Candy Bar
2(b). Word Travels Fast..
3. Power is Temporary!!!”
As relevant today (for today read google, youtube, myspace, second life, *2.0, blog, wiki, mashup, digg etc) as they were in 1995?
You decide.
