Knowledge is at once a hard-won, personal asset and a communally owned social asset.
Because you belong to and are an integrally involved member of society, what ever you discover and create belongs to you as an individual and to us as part of you. Chances are very good that you could not have discovered or created what you have without all that we have discovered and created before you. Therefore knowledge cannot be owned by any one individual or group of individuals. In a very organic/systemic elementary way, knowledge is a public asset and a public service.
Knowledge is advanced by both curiosity and necessity.
Knowledge is enhanced and nurtured by wisdom.
Knowledge can serve both good and evil; or to put it another way, knowledge can be the road that takes humanity to utopia or the road that takes humanity to ignoble extinction.
Comment by Visionary Voyager
on What will Humanity Become? 2
Knowledge is at once a hard-won, personal asset and a communally owned social asset.
Because you belong to and are an integrally involved member of society, what ever you discover and create belongs to you as an individual and to us as part of you. Chances are very good that you could not have discovered or created what you have without all that we have discovered and created before you. Therefore knowledge cannot be owned by any one individual or group of individuals. In a very organic/systemic elementary way, knowledge is a public asset and a public service.
Knowledge is advanced by both curiosity and necessity.
Knowledge is enhanced and nurtured by wisdom.
Knowledge can serve both good and evil; or to put it another way, knowledge can be the road that takes humanity to utopia or the road that takes humanity to ignoble extinction.