Danterious@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 8 months agoWe live in a post scarcity information society and we still haven't moved on from capitalism.message-squaremessage-square185fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
arrow-up10arrow-down1message-squareWe live in a post scarcity information society and we still haven't moved on from capitalism.Danterious@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 8 months agomessage-square185fedilink
minus-squareGBU_28@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-28 months agoPerhaps we live in a post DATA scarcity society. But information is still a scarce commodity
minus-squaremasterspace@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·8 months agoThe idea in relation to capitalism is referring to information from a physics standpoint, not from a data analysis standpoint, as in Information Theory and it’s laws as opposed to the laws that govern matter / energy.
minus-squareDanterious@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·8 months agoI think that we do live in a society where information is not scarce because the ease of replicating any information has increased significantly.
minus-squaresilly goose meekah@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·7 months agoThat does not mean everyone has access to it
Perhaps we live in a post DATA scarcity society. But information is still a scarce commodity
The idea in relation to capitalism is referring to information from a physics standpoint, not from a data analysis standpoint, as in Information Theory and it’s laws as opposed to the laws that govern matter / energy.
I think that we do live in a society where information is not scarce because the ease of replicating any information has increased significantly.
That does not mean everyone has access to it