From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!fair
Newsgroups: net.misc
Title: Re: Information Economy
Article-I.D.: ucbvax.652
Posted: Fri Jan 21 21:20:53 1983
Received: Mon Jan 24 05:39:33 1983

	I can see at least two problems with the view presented in the article
posted to the net:

	1) To consume information, one must, at the very least, be literate,
		and (to make the most of it) highly educated. Most of the
		countries of the third world have \very/ poor literacy rates,
		and usually no significant percentage of the population is
		educated in any real sense.

	2) The third world is still going to compete for the natural resources
		which are consumed by material production (in large part by the
		nations of the first world). Europe and North America continue
		to consumee the Lion's share of the world's natural resources,
		and one day not too far off, the third world will demand its
		fair share.

One more thing: I was confused (or maybe the author wass confused?) by the term
`mass production of information'. What does \that/ mean?

	Erik E. Fair	ucbvax!fair	fair@Berkeley