How Aplutism Won The Cold War
Aplutism is
the theory that money does not exist. It says that money is at beset a useful
fiction, but sometimes an illusion, or even a fraud. The trouble with the
Internet economy is that information is unownable. Money doesn’t make sense in
such a case; the Internet is aplutist!
This is an
effect of the Cold War; for DARPANET was supposed to be resistant to
thermonuclear assault. This mandated its open architecture; which in turn makes
both censorship and ownership of Internet information impossible. The Web
interprets censorship and ownership as damage and routes around them.
Intellect
is not property. As all rivers flow down to the sea, so all data on the Web
tends to become common property of all mankind, and cannot be monetized.
Information
wants to be free; yet information also wants to be paid; therefore information
is broke! And that is aplutism.
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