Comments on: Defining Power http://www.urbanagora.com/2009/09/defining-power.html An exchange of ideas from thinkers spanning the spectrum Wed, 18 Jan 2012 21:26:43 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Tim http://www.urbanagora.com/2009/09/defining-power.html/comment-page-1#comment-10814 Tim Fri, 11 Sep 2009 04:50:01 +0000 http://www.urbanagora.com/?p=2528#comment-10814 I really find it hard to believe that anyone could "control information" in this day and age. Maybe I'm completely off base, but it seems far too complex in such a tremendously advanced and decentralized society. I really find it hard to believe that anyone could “control information” in this day and age. Maybe I’m completely off base, but it seems far too complex in such a tremendously advanced and decentralized society.

]]> By: Tom Trumpinski http://www.urbanagora.com/2009/09/defining-power.html/comment-page-1#comment-10799 Tom Trumpinski Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:41:08 +0000 http://www.urbanagora.com/?p=2528#comment-10799 I think that formula was valid for the now-finished Industrial Age, just as during the Agricultural Age, which came prior to that one, Power = Control of Water Supply (which is why no "water-control" empire ever fell from within.) The new formula for the Twenty-First Century is this: Power = Control of Information, for if you control Information, you can steer *everything* else in the direction you want it to go. Tom I think that formula was valid for the now-finished Industrial Age, just as during the Agricultural Age, which came prior to that one, Power = Control of Water Supply (which is why no “water-control” empire ever fell from within.)

The new formula for the Twenty-First Century is this:

Power = Control of Information, for if you control Information, you can steer *everything* else in the direction you want it to go.

Tom

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