If Everyone’s Talking, Who Will Listen?
25th August 2008
The Overclass wishes that everybody else would just shut up.
Rather than call for government regulation of technology itself, perhaps the best way to limit the avalanche is to make the technologies that overproduce information more expensive and less widespread. It could be done via a progressive energy tax designed to keep energy prices at a consistently high level (while providing assistance to lower- and middle-income Americans).
Put the government in charge of information. What a novel idea.