No, Information wants to be free. Clearly, if Louis Kahn can ask a brick what it wants to be (it wanted to be an arch, as all architecture students know) certainly information wants to be free.
These anthropomorphisms humanize their subject, almost inevitably, and establish ergonomics as the center of human knowledge and social activity, which is right where it belongs.
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No, Information wants to be free. Clearly, if Louis Kahn can ask a brick what it wants to be (it wanted to be an arch, as all architecture students know) certainly information wants to be free.
These anthropomorphisms humanize their subject, almost inevitably, and establish ergonomics as the center of human knowledge and social activity, which is right where it belongs.