Infreemation infreemation

Infreemation infreemation

I am reading Joseph Stiglitz’我讀約瑟夫斯蒂格利茨' Globalization and Its Discontents全球化及其不滿 . 。 A fascinating look at the politics of international finance, particularly the World Bank, IMF and US Treasury.有趣的看政治，國際金融，特別是世界銀行，國際貨幣基金組織和美國財政部。 He makes an interesting point early on about how market transactions and their profitability are driven by他使一個有趣的一點，早在有關如何市場交易和盈利驅動 assymetries of information assymetries信息 between two parties.兩方之間。 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.這個有趣的是，為幾個原因，首先是因為很多經濟模型的假設“完美市場”有透明度之間的信息供應商和消費者時，這顯然並非如此，在現實世界中，其次這使我更了解比以往的資料，是真正的貨幣的世界，但是無形的，因而難以追踪。 So that is why “information is power.” I should say controlling information leads to economic advantage and in turn, power.所以這就是為什麼“信息就是力量。 ”我應該說，控制信息，導致經濟優勢，並在轉，電源。 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.這就是為什麼微軟，政府和大的媒體需要我們關注的-這是符合他們的利益來控制信息的流動，以及我們如何使用它。

This provides a brief segue into another book I am reading called這提供了一個簡短的segue到另一本書我讀的所謂 Free Culture自由文化 which explains how public rights to information are being eroded by copyright and intellectual property lobby groups.這說明如何公共權利的資料，現正侵蝕版權和知識產權遊說團體。 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.大媒體公司，豐富的出售我們自己的內容，遊說政府為越來越涵蓋一切的，永恆的權利，它們的材料，甚至程度消除非常的權利人的基礎上原有的成功。 Apparently the use of derivative and public domain works played a large part in Disney’s growth.顯然使用衍生金融工具和公共領域的作品起到了很大一部分在迪士尼的增長。