information dominance Quotes

Jack's [Ma Yun ] theory is that whoever controls data controls the world.

Since the discovery of printing, knowledge has been called to power, and power has been used to make knowledge a slave.

Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.

Who has the data has the power.

I have more information in one place than anybody in the world.

In industrialized warfare, where the representation of events outstripped the presentation of facts, the image was starting to gain sway over the object, time over space. Soon a conflict of strategic and political interpretation would ensue, with radio and then radar completing the picture.

The control of knowledge is the crux of tomorrow's worldwide struggle for power in every human institution.

The Internet has been an invaluable acquisition. I wonder how we would do without it. Information can be sent from one country to the other within the space of minutes, crossing channels, crossing oceans, crossing continents. But still, we can't compete with the might and power and wealth of those who dominate, control, and own the means of the production of information today.

The NSA's business is 'information dominance,' the use of other people's secrets to shape events.

We now control 37 newspapers, 6 radio stations, 314 theatres, 642 movies, 101 magazines, 237 book publishers, 7,384 book dealers and printers, and conduct about 15 public opinion surveys a month, as well as publish one newspaper with 1,500,000 circulation, 3 magazines, run the Associated Press of Germany (DANA), and operate 20 library centers ...