Nobody - myself included - believes that we could ever achieve total information awareness. But the government needs to set goals and long-range objectives. Total information awareness is a good goal.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
What the government wants is something they never had before. They want total awareness. The question is, is that something we should be allowing?
In order to win the war on terrorism, we have to win the war of information. Information is so very, very valuable. This is an important tool in gathering up information.
Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves.
The viewpoint of the government is that the people must have full access to all information worldwide.
Well, there's a question as to what sort of information is important in the world, what sort of information can achieve reform. And there's a lot of information. So information that organizations are spending economic effort into concealing, that's a really good signal that when the information gets out, there's a hope of it doing some good.
There is an enormous market demand for information. It just has to be fulfilled in a way that fits with the technology of our times.
Basically, our goal is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful.
I don't think many people anticipated how the Internet was going to revolutionize the way we disseminate information.
The thing about information is that information is more valuable when people know it. There's an exception for business information and super timely information, but in all other cases, ideas that spread win.
Information networks straddle the world. Nothing remains concealed. But the sheer volume of information dissolves the information. We are unable to take it all in.
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