The significance of this statement depends on what the choices are. Of course creation of the future cannot take place in a vacuum. If on the other hand, molding the future toward our ideals is interpreted as an empowering-act that captures the best in the present to serve as the bases for constructing the future then we have the freedom to create new states, freedom to expand the state space. At this point the commonly accepted Shannon-Weaver definition of information must be abandoned. Information is no longer a homogeneous entity that we use to purchase standardized descriptions of phenomena.
Information is now also an active force.
As is the case in nature, 'information has multiple faces, it may even be constituted of more fundamental underlying aspects that interact to yield a stable historical trail. The trail is what we observe after the creative act, it is what we ordinarily call information, it has coordinates in the newly created state-space, but it did not create that state space. Think of the implications of this. It is obvious that, even in an age of computers, disciplined inquiry in science is vested in human beings. It is not so obvious that scientific inquiry must be humanistic inquiry.