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"We all agree that the free flow of ideas is essential to creativity. And we like to believe that in our modern, technological world, information is more freely available and flows faster than ever before. But according to Nobel Laureate Robert Laughlin, acquiring information is becoming a danger or even a crime. Increasingly, the really valuable information is private property or a state secret, with the result that it is now easy for a flash of insight, entirely innocently, to infringe a patent or threaten national security. The public pays little attention because this vital information is technical - but, Laughlin argues, information is often labeled technical so it can be sequestered, not sequestered because it is technical. The increasing restrictions on information in such fields as cryptography, biotechnology, and computer software design are creating a new Dark Age: a time characterized not by light and truth but by disinformation and ignorance. Thus we find ourselves dealing more and more with the Crime of Reason, the antisocial and sometimes outright illegal nature of certain intellectual activities. The Crime of Reason is a reader-friendly jeremiad, On Bullshit for the Slashdot and Creative Commons crowd: a short, fiercely argued essay on a problem of increasing concern to people at the frontiers of new ideas."
""Many of us believe that in our modern, Internet-enabled world, information is more freely available than ever before. But according to Nobel Prize-winning physicist Robert Laughlin, this is a dangerous delusion. We are surrounded by mounting volumes of advertising and spam, but a great deal of truly valuable information is increasingly classified or designated as private property. More and more, a flash of insight can become a patent infringement or threat to national security. More and more, the act of reasoning for oneself is becoming a crime." "Laughlin argues that we have unknowingly made a collective decision to relinquish our intellectual rights. A passionately argued book, The Crime of Reason offers a stern and timely warning that this decision may lead America into a new Dark Age."--Résumé de l'éditeur."
"A Nobel Laureate physicist argues that ours is not an age of information but an age of disinformation and ignorance, where access to knowledge is becoming increasingly restricted and even criminalized."@en

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The crime of reason and the closing of the scientific mind

A Nobel Laureate physicist argues that ours is not an age of information but an age of disinformation and ignorance, where access to knowledge is becoming increasingly restricted and even criminalized.

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