As Noam Chomsky points out, we citizens must instruct our government in the basic truths of the Age of Information. Content is the key to national security and national competitiveness. Right now there are curtains between sectors, curtains between institutions within those sectors, and curtains between individuals within those institutions. Our highest priority as a nation should be to break down these barriers. More importantly, we must make available to each citizen the richest possible information commons.
National intelligence is the empowerment of the individual citizen.
With the passing of the Cold War the national intelligence community as it once existed has lost its mandate and its mystique. In the Information Age, national intelligence will either be put in the service of the citizen and in the context of private sector information capabilities that are unclassified, or it will be slowly and painfully eliminated from the budget of the nation. Inc. All rights reserved.