On December 17 1903 on a windy North Carolina beach for just shy of one hundred seconds the Wright brothers demonstrated that a heavier-than-air self-propelled vehicle could fly. The moment was electric and its importance widely understood. Almost imme

Information, knowledge, and culture are central to human freedom and human development. How they are produced and exchanged in our society critically affects the way we see the state of the world as it is and might be; who decides these questions; and how