The World Wide Web has been available for only four years or so, but even now there is hardly any area of society to which it has not spread. Information and money are dimensions of power - and publicity. Both the Internet and literature contain vast quantities of information. There's more juice in this than meets the eye, and it's not just for the lawyers. Our relationship with intellectual capital is, I maintain, one of the most important challenges facing today's information society.
Technology changes economy, legislation and social relationships.
Digitisation affects almost all society's infrastructures. Of course, conditions for cultural works, and how to archive and distribute them, also change. Unlike money and material things, intellectual capital is strange in that it can be shared and, in the sharing, it grows. When gathered in one place it is not taken away from another place, as is the case with matter and Mammon. Gathering and increasing information deprives nobody else of it, rather it improves their chances of getting more.