The Internet can expose information that is tainted because the data is critiqued by the masses. Many of those critiquing may be within the realm of that field of information or may simply be those who have the aptitude to understand the data. There is a lot of free data published online (still not enough) allowing this critiquing to take place.
There are those who would like to severely restrict this free flow of information. This would be a disaster and would take away the biggest opportunity mankind has had to make better choices for its survival.
Taxpayers May Benefit
Information control can be powerful so clever ways have been devised over the years for corporations and not so well intended persons to access public money without calling it public money. Research grants, tax breaks, wide ranging corporate deductions for 'research and development', public/private partnerships are all methods by which corporations can access public funds.
As taxpayers we see tax freedom day move further and further into the calendar year yet we have less and less control over our destiny as corporate control wraps itself ever tighter around our lives, choking any freedom we think we have in determining our own destiny.
Even though we are repeatedly told how well things are in life and how life has improved, the world is at greater risk of catastrophic failure than ever before, mishandled by the heartless, faceless world of economics. No one can state with any level of credibility that we are not heading down a perilous road of single-minded, consumption driven, self-destructiveness.
The marrying of corporate money with public money to fund research projects (co-funding) is done under the guise of a wise use of public funds, and stretching a dollar. In reality the public gives up control of the information it funded putting it in the hands of boardrooms.
These boardrooms in turn can cleverly control and fund the election of politicians hand-picked to ensure the continual flow of public monies into their coffers. They fund these political ties from the profits earned from the use of public monies...a perpetual bottomless pit.
No reasonable person would allow their destiny to be controlled by profit yet when the benefactors of profit hold all the data we are left with nothing to question. We can only surmise and assume then live with the consequences.
The Internet if managed correctly can change this and we can own the data we paid for.
The controlled, directed, and filtered global databank of knowledge presently makes up the content of science, history, and medical textbooks from which our young minds learn.
We put our futures in these young hands yet we give them unwittingly only part of the puzzle to work with.
Monetary interests have severely infiltrated, restricted and directed our databank of knowledge. As corporations merge more frequently, those in control of this knowledge are fewer and fewer. Information is power and we are being led by many not so well intended participants.
Universities are now covertly corporations for profit, heavily laden with conflicts of interest. All research emanating from these bodies is unfortunately suspect and trust in our most prestigious institutions has gone out the window.
A well-funded researcher was once held in high esteem. Now one questions the source and purpose of his/her funding and the possibly tainted results.
Our professors teach to young minds these conflicted data with full confidence, however na??ve and mis-guided, that what they are teaching is good solid information.
There are those who would like to severely restrict this free flow of information. This would be a disaster and would take away the biggest opportunity mankind has had to make better choices for its survival.
Taxpayers May Benefit
Information control can be powerful so clever ways have been devised over the years for corporations and not so well intended persons to access public money without calling it public money. Research grants, tax breaks, wide ranging corporate deductions for 'research and development', public/private partnerships are all methods by which corporations can access public funds.
Even though we are repeatedly told how well things are in life and how life has improved, the world is at greater risk of catastrophic failure than ever before, mishandled by the heartless, faceless world of economics. No one can state with any level of credibility that we are not heading down a perilous road of single-minded, consumption driven, self-destructiveness.
The marrying of corporate money with public money to fund research projects (co-funding) is done under the guise of a wise use of public funds, and stretching a dollar. In reality the public gives up control of the information it funded putting it in the hands of boardrooms.
These boardrooms in turn can cleverly control and fund the election of politicians hand-picked to ensure the continual flow of public monies into their coffers. They fund these political ties from the profits earned from the use of public monies...a perpetual bottomless pit.
No reasonable person would allow their destiny to be controlled by profit yet when the benefactors of profit hold all the data we are left with nothing to question. We can only surmise and assume then live with the consequences.
The Internet if managed correctly can change this and we can own the data we paid for.
The controlled, directed, and filtered global databank of knowledge presently makes up the content of science, history, and medical textbooks from which our young minds learn.
We put our futures in these young hands yet we give them unwittingly only part of the puzzle to work with.
Monetary interests have severely infiltrated, restricted and directed our databank of knowledge. As corporations merge more frequently, those in control of this knowledge are fewer and fewer. Information is power and we are being led by many not so well intended participants.
Universities are now covertly corporations for profit, heavily laden with conflicts of interest. All research emanating from these bodies is unfortunately suspect and trust in our most prestigious institutions has gone out the window.
A well-funded researcher was once held in high esteem. Now one questions the source and purpose of his/her funding and the possibly tainted results.
Our professors teach to young minds these conflicted data with full confidence, however na??ve and mis-guided, that what they are teaching is good solid information.
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