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