Radio National: Knowledge Indignation: Road
Radio National: Knowledge Indignation: Road Rage on the Information Superhighway (via Camworld)In ancient times if you wanted power, you burned the libraries and controlled the flow of information.Then God created the Internet. And in theory, everyone could read everything. It didn't last. Now, a couple of decades later, knowledge that was available to the public and scholars for free, is a hot commodity. It's being, wait for it, 'monetised'. That means ways are being found to make money out of it. Worse, access to it is being bought up by half a dozen big online publishers who are locking away information, research, journals, archives and libraries.
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