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The cost to produce and distribute Information has collapsed thanks to Information Technology (IT).

With that collapse in cost, we've seen an inversion in how Power uses Information to its advantage.
2/ We went from the Church, which capitalized on *high-cost* of information (pre-printing press, all books had to be handwritten), by *limiting* information that would compete with the Church’s aims.
3/ To current Nation-States, which exploit the extremely *low-cost* of information to *amplify* the ideas they want people to think are true.
4/ Information distribution at scale, by both machines and humans, overpowers reality.

In our current situation, overpowering reality allows a new, factually incorrect, "truth" to be installed.
5/ A technological solution to this societal problem is one many have touched upon:

Society’s key information needs to exist on shared databases that all can maintain and verify. Those databases are called #blockchains :)
6/ The oracle problem for how "meatspace" information is loaded onto a blockchain is the main (?) remaining technological hurdle?
I should note here that not all current Nation-States do this.

It's just surprised me how quickly the War on Information has risen up within the US, and of course, it exists in many authoritarian regimes.

Technology has allowed the shift to happen under Trump shockingly fast.
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