Open Access to Information Highways: Chances and Dangers for Developing Countries
Juliusz Lech Kulikowski · The International Information & Library Review · 1997
From the point of view of the information highways, the population may be divided in three groups: (i) those who do not understand yet what the information highways are and how they can be used; (ii) those who already understand them; (iii) those who already understand what they are not and how they should not be used. The author sees the information highways as a tool for a multi-personal game whose players have their own particular goals but may not be conscious of the goals of other participants. Hence, the ethics of using information highways can be considered as a set of general rules imposed on it for a common interest. He warns that the absence of such commonly accepted rules will lead to a state of information anarchy.