PPT Slide
Knowledge . . . an informational commodity, indispensable to productive power is already, and will continue to be, a major— perhaps the major— stake in the worldwide competition for power. It is conceivable that . . . One will one day fight for control of information, just as they battled in the past for control over territory, . . . raw materials and cheap labor.
Jean François Lyotard (b. 1924), French philosopher. (q.1979)