My intellectual life is an open book, here for others to discover but more fundamentally here for me to explore and work out. I certainly find that my information, knowledge, and wisdom want to be free, which is why I share it with all comers. I'm continually amazed by organizations and individuals who jealously guard their intellectual property behind the walls of subscriptions and memberships and such. To me, the most natural thing is to make what I write and think available as quickly as possible. When, for example, I write a poem , my first impulse is to upload it to the Monadnock Review , not send it to some literary magazine who might put it on paper in a few years' time only to have it be sent to some small list of subscribers and libraries.
Information wants to be free.
There is a connection between this core Internet culture and the scientific revolution that I would like to explore at some point. Ayn Rand made much of the industrial revolution, but she never touted the scientific revolution, which I find to be the more radical of the two. The scientific revolution is all about openness, about experiment, about learning, about the pursuit of truth, about recognizing that absolute certainty is neither an option nor a goal, about the process and the journey rather than reaching some final resting place.