Open nature of the internet, mostly waffle

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@@ -5,7 +5,32 @@ Mohit Agarwal
 .AI
 January 2022
 .PP
-The internet offers a potentially Utopian vision of human interaction.
-The nature of computers and the information stored 
+The Internet offers a potentially Utopian vision of human interaction.
+The nature of computers and the information stored on them means that
+a large file such as a book can be duplicated practically instantly.
+When sharing information on the Internet, it is not limited by the
+physical limitation of traditional methods. To give someone a book is
+either to lose the copy yourself or to obtain or produce a copy of
+that book, which can be a difficult process. With the Internet,
+however, information can exist in a more absolute state, separated
+entirely from any physical media. Millions of people can download a
+single book as easily as one person could, and the traditional
+limitations that lead us to `own' individual property no longer exist.
+In this way, the Internet eliminates the ownership of information in
+whatever forms it perpetuated through the attachment of information
+to media such as books or celluloid film, and the copying of
+information can take place in its purest state: of literal
+information, and then being stored as pure information, although on a
+physical media such as a hard drive, for all meaningful reasons (due to
+the large capacities and low cost of modern drives) unattached to
+anything physical whatsoever. Although this was true for other methods
+of sharing information, such as through radio broadcasts, information
+received via the Internet can be easily stored, processed, and
+accessed at any time, as well as giving anyone the ability to
+broadcast their own information rather than receive it, as usage of
+broadcasting towers was and remains limited, whereas the internet may
+be used to present new information by anyone. A key example of this
+might be Wikipedia.
+-- todo: "Take part in information, not only consume it"
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