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Article: Sold out.(intellectual property rights and the Internet)(Column)(Transcript)
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- Computers in Libraries
- Article date:
- May 1, 1996
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Editor's Note: The following essay appeared in the Op-Ed section of The New York Times March 31, 1996 edition. Copyright [C] 1996, The New York Times Company. Distributed by New York Times Special Features/Syndication Sales.
We've got the information age all wrong. Someone who reads today's newspapers would conclude that the four most important aspects of the information age are cyberporn, Windows 95, Newt Gingrich, and cyberporn. This is like saying that the most important signposts during the rise of industrial capitalism in America were mass-produced pornographic magazines, Warren Gamaliel Harding, and the Veg-O-Matic.
To understand the age we have entered, ...