I think that it was incorrect to say that information has become a tool. It's always been a tool, and as technology grew in the early years of the industrial age, people made it a product. from clay pots, newspapers, vinyl records, magnetic tapes, and optical discs were all physical mediums for transporting that information.
Bit patterns on a network is like radio waves in the air, nothing prevents you from receiving that information and storing it for whatever reason.
It's like hearing a sound, song, or beat and your mind recording it just to use it later. You can't un-hear something, only not remember it.
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information has always been a tool
I think that it was incorrect to say that information has become a tool. It's always been a tool, and as technology grew in the early years of the industrial age, people made it a product. from clay pots, newspapers, vinyl records, magnetic tapes, and optical discs were all physical mediums for transporting that information.
Bit patterns on a network is like radio waves in the air, nothing prevents you from receiving that information and storing it for whatever reason.
It's like hearing a sound, song, or beat and your mind recording it just to use it later. You can't un-hear something, only not remember it.