Ours is an age infatuated with information, addicted to information, and voraciously hungry for ever increasing doses of information. The promise of cyberspace, and particularly of the Internet, is that it will usher the much-vaunted information age into its own. More people can have greater access to more information more often.
Data becomes transportable at hyper-velocities.
All we need to do is point, click, and take it in. In a just a few key strokes I can link up with thousands of databases, Web pages, and other information cornucopias. When a lack of knowledge is the primary problem in a particular case, the dissemination of pertinent knowledge is a God-send. The earth has been a place of scarcity ever since it was cursed and fallen mortals were barred from Eden 1 . Knowledge is a resource subject to scarcity as much as is food, water, gainful employment, intelligence, and housing.