Information Technologies and Social Transformation (1985) / Chapter Skim
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Comments by Jordan J. Baruch
Comments by Jordan J. Baruch
Pages 121-122
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Its primary protection, because it is likely to be evanescent, rests with the subsequent action that it triggers. If our smart friend works well, he will prosper by acting and by protecting the value in the model whereby he acts on information aggregates.
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The second law simply says that whatever detainee power in our society will be found to be nonuniformly distributed and therefore unfair. Some people in our society are simply going to be better at aggregating information and at drawing conclusions from it than others, and they will be considered to be taking unfair advantage of the new society just as those who were strong unfairly took advantage of neolithic society and those who had early access unfairly took advantage of colonial society.
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