A computer scientist calls the number of bits needed to store a given document on a computer disk information. A bit is a one or zero stored on a disk. A floppy disk that fits in a shirt pocket can contain one million separate one or zero bits. The beauty of information is that it combines all of Western civilization's mechanical categories into one total category. Information is anything from machine diagrams, digitized photographs and MIDI coded music to junk mail and gibberish.
Information is the perfections of all automated production and consumption.
This makes information the perfect product. Through this redefinition of the world the sale of information is a huge industry. Information is everything from video games, to television, to fashion, to packaging to CD's to college lectures to bank records and junk mail. The information age offers capitalists a solution to the problem of maintaining the logic of scarcity. Capitalists imagine the information age as a bigger and bigger world where the old order of scarcity continue.