Infreemation infreemation

Infreemation infreemation

I am reading Joseph Stiglitz’我读约瑟夫斯蒂格利茨' Globalization and Its Discontents全球化及其不满 . 。 A fascinating look at the politics of international finance, particularly the World Bank, IMF and US Treasury.有趣的看政治，国际金融，特别是世界银行，国际货币基金组织和美国财政部。 He makes an interesting point early on about how market transactions and their profitability are driven by他使一个有趣的一点，早在有关如何市场交易和盈利驱动 assymetries of information assymetries信息 between two parties.两方之间。 This is interesting for a few reasons, firstly because a lot of economic models assume “perfect markets” where there is transparency of information between suppliers and consumers when this is obviously not the case in the real world, secondly this leads me to understand more than ever that information is the real currency of the world, however intangible and thus difficult to track.这是一个有趣的几个原因，首先是因为很多经济模型的假设“完美市场”有透明度之间的信息供应商和消费者时，这显然并非如此，在现实世界中，其次这使我更了解比以往的资料，是真正的货币的世界，但是无形的，因而难以追踪。 So that is why “information is power.” I should say controlling information leads to economic advantage and in turn, power.所以这就是为什么“信息就是力量。 ”我应该说，控制信息，导致经济优势，并在转，电源。 This is why Microsoft, Governments, and Big Media need concern us - it is in their interests to control the flow of information and how we use it.这就是为什么微软，政府和大的媒体需要我们关注的-这是符合他们的利益来控制信息的流动，以及我们如何使用它。

This provides a brief segue into another book I am reading called这提供了一个简短的segue到另一本书我读的所谓 Free Culture自由文化 which explains how public rights to information are being eroded by copyright and intellectual property lobby groups.这说明如何公共权利的资料，现正侵蚀版权和知识产权游说团体。 Big media companies, rich from selling us their content, lobby government for increasingly all-encompassing and everlasting rights to their materials, even to the extent of removing the very rights that were the basis of their original success.大媒体公司，丰富的出售我们自己的内容，游说政府为越来越涵盖一切的，永恒的权利，它们的材料，甚至程度消除非常的权利人的基础上原有的成功。 Apparently the use of derivative and public domain works played a large part in Disney’s growth.显然使用衍生金融工具和公共领域的作品起到了很大一部分在迪士尼的增长。