Today, if I want to know something, I Google it. If I have information to share I can post it on Wikipedia.org. If I want to kill some time, I can go browse through YouTube to find the latest funny videos. Virtually all of the information the modern world has to offer is right at my fingertips twenty four hours a day. Unfortunately, the world’s information was not always this free, in fact for a long time, almost nobody even had the information necessary to learn how to read and write. This is such a far stretch from where we are today that for many, it is very hard to imagine. When I say the information is “free” I mean two things. First, I am referring to the monetary value of information, it is free as in it costs almost nothing. Second, I am referring to the freedom information has, mu
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| - Today, if I want to know something, I Google it. If I have information to share I can post it on Wikipedia.org. If I want to kill some time, I can go browse through YouTube to find the latest funny videos. Virtually all of the information the modern world has to offer is right at my fingertips twenty four hours a day. Unfortunately, the world’s information was not always this free, in fact for a long time, almost nobody even had the information necessary to learn how to read and write. This is such a far stretch from where we are today that for many, it is very hard to imagine. When I say the information is “free” I mean two things. First, I am referring to the monetary value of information, it is free as in it costs almost nothing. Second, I am referring to the freedom information has, mu
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| - Today, if I want to know something, I Google it. If I have information to share I can post it on Wikipedia.org. If I want to kill some time, I can go browse through YouTube to find the latest funny videos. Virtually all of the information the modern world has to offer is right at my fingertips twenty four hours a day. Unfortunately, the world’s information was not always this free, in fact for a long time, almost nobody even had the information necessary to learn how to read and write. This is such a far stretch from where we are today that for many, it is very hard to imagine. When I say the information is “free” I mean two things. First, I am referring to the monetary value of information, it is free as in it costs almost nothing. Second, I am referring to the freedom information has, much like the democratic freedoms we enjoy here in the United States. But how did the information become as free as it is today? In order to answer that, you must understand the history of information. The first step in democratizing information ties closely to the church. The second step in the democratization of information involves a German print maker. The third and final factor in the development of free information comes with the birth of the internet. Throughout the last millennia, we have seen a great shift in ownership of information. Information has gone from being owned and controlled by the few to being owned, controlled, and even created by the masses.
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