Information wants to be free—remember that old saw? Some tr… - Gregory Benford

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Information wants to be free—remember that old saw? Some truth to it, only it’s backwards. This isn’t an information economy—we’re drowning in that—it’s an attention economy. That’s what everybody’s vying for.

Gregory Benford

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Gregory Benford (born January 30, 1941, in Mobile, Alabama) is an American science fiction author and astrophysicist who is on the faculty of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Irvine.

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Alternative Names: Gregory Albert Benford • Greg Benford

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