Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a product or a service that the customer does not and cannot have and does not need if he can trust the brand. This explains the profitability of brands.
This revolution the information revoultion is a revolution of free energy as well but of another kind: free intellectual energy. It's very crude today yet our Macintosh computer takes less power than a 100-watt bulb to run it and it can save you hours a day. What will it be able to do ten or 20 years from now or 50 years from now?
There is something about inside information which seems to paralyse a man's reasoning powers.
Imagine a civilisation that's way in advance of us wants to communicate with us and assist us in our development. The information we provide to them must reflect our highest aspirations and ideals and not just be some crazy person's bizarre politics or religion.
Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance like a signpost or a warning notice.
A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
I have this pet thing about how global communications are moving so fast now throwing information at you making everything available to you and yet I feel it's leaving us more and more isolated.
We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information.
Violent behavior exists in one's psychological makeup much deeper than the level that receives information from television or movies.
Well getting behind the camera is something I've always wanted to get involved with. Ever since I was doing movies like 'Zathura' I was very interested in all the different jobs on set and kind of soaking all the information up like a sponge.