information wants to be free

Technology has this innate momentum (or intertia) to continue developing until the hypothetical end when the infinite game of life as we know it reaches its final destination. People have different guesses on what that end is or when it might happen. Though we don't have a date, a religion like Christianity has one answer of what it would look like when it happens. Not sure I've seen if there's a scientific answer for when the world will end due to factors like global warming, or the expansion of the universe, or something else. Technology Is Heading Somewhere If the question is framed as, " What does technology want? " - that assumes that technology has some kind of an inherent bias to move towards something that it wants.  Kevin Kelly wrote a book with that question as the title . And this video ted.com is worth watching to get the full context. What is the conclusion? Kevin Kelly alludes to what technology wants in a few statements like these: So...

Wikipedia says, or at the moment of this posting: The Information Age is a 21st century period in human history characterized by the rapid shift from traditional industry that the Industrial Revolution brought through industrialization, to an economy based on information technology. Other terms for this time that we find ourselves in, include: Computer Age,  Digital Age,  New Media Age What's next after the information age? Some people are trend-watchers (and others are trend-setters; and most people are just normal trend-followers, though there's a few who are trend-resistors and trend-avoiders). Do you wonder what is beyond the information age ? In 2014, Julian Birkinshaw (London Business School) wrote:  The industrial revolution in the late nineteenth century ushered in the industrial age, and the digital revolution in the mid twentieth century spurred the emergence of the information age. So it is not entirely crazy to speculate about what ...