Information Age, Cyber-space, Digital Currency, and tools for using the World Wide Web may be found and placed in this section of the Library.

Not sure what the Information Age is? You may wish to beign with some of the links below.

Introducing the Information Age: Guide and Links

The Following are links to explanations of topics relating to the Information Age.
We suggest you start with the first article (it’s a short blog) and move on from there.

Entering the Information Age: We are not yet in the Information Age, we are in the pressurization period just previous to it because there is still one of the required elements missing - an appropriate global law forum. Age's are defined by their commercial models, each Age is distinguished by 3 core-comprising elements of any commercial model, these are: Law Forum, Currency, and governing system.

Private"Digital" Currency: “If the Internet is going to become the engine of global commerce it's cracked up to be, it needs a currency it can call its own - a currency as nonproprietary and international as the Internet itself...
Towards Global Collaborative Computing: P2P Opportunities & ChallengesThe 4th International Conference on Grid and Cooperative Computing...

INTERNET USAGE STATISTICS - The Big Picture: Internet Usage and World Population Statistics were updated on June 10, 2007

Information Communication for Self-Determination & The Virtual Nation: Swiftly evolving information and communication technologies and networking infrastructures are playing an expanding role in supporting the self-determination of peoples and emergent nations… Self-determination struggles may benefit from the ability to form ''virtual communities.''

Corporate Responsibility in the New Age : In the Information Age, corporations will necessarily be required to fulfill more of a functional primary role in sustaining society, a job that is currently held by the Nation State, and previous to that was maintained by the Church…
Internet Governance : The Internet is considered by many to be the global infrastructure of the information society, the most critical piece of the economic, social and cultural foundation of our time.

Jurisdictional Issues of the Net: E-commerce and the Internet in general give new significance to an old problem in international law: when does a citizen of one country or a corporation with its place of business in one country fall under the jurisdiction of the courts of another country.

Information Age - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Under conventional economic theory, the Information Age also heralded the era where information was a scarce resource and its capture and distribution.

Edinformatics -- Education for the Information Age: Educational databases for teachers containing science projects, teacher jobs, lesson plans, curriculum, state testing resources, java applets, free software

The Digital Dilemma: Intellectual Property in the Information Age: Committee on Intellectual Property Rights and the Emerging Information Infrastructure…

Contributions of Physics to the Information Age: The history of important inventions by physicists in the fields of computers, information technology, and solid state electronics

The Information Age and the Globalization of Religion: This rapid acceleration of the "information age" is now producing a phenomenon which can be called the "globalization of religion."

Shift Happens - Globalization : Created by Karl Fisch, and modified by Scott McLeod

Nationality and Sovereignty in the New World Order: STATES, SOVEREIGNTY, AND DIPLOMACY IN THE INFORMATION AGE ..... Due in large part to the forces of globalization and localization, rule-setting authority

States, Sovereignty, and Diplomacy in the Information Age : STATES, SOVEREIGNTY, AND DIPLOMACY IN THE INFORMATION AGE ..... Due in large part to the forces of globalization and localization, rule-setting authority

The Information Age: An Anthology on Its Impact and Consequences: The Information Age. That is what many pundits, writers, and analysts have already labeled these concluding years of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first century.
Diversity in the Age of Globalization: Indigenous Internet: Can traditional peoples survive the Information Age?

Community and Communalism in the Information Age : Community and Communalism in the Information Age, while the information revolution has indeed helped to de-emphasize national sovereignty, enhance global...

Paradox of modern technology: This is the Information Age, which does not always mean information in our brains," says John Gleick in Faster: the Acceleration of Just About Everything….

Globalization of Information: Intellectual Property Law Implications: Sovereignty and the globalization of intellectual property, Capitalism and the Information age: The political economy of the global…

CYBERNATION: The American Infrastructure in the Information Age: Cyber-nations and the American Infrastructure in the Information Age: jurisdictions, sovereignty, and the applicability of laws…

`` Security and Trust in Peer to Peer Systems: Risks and Countermeasures" International Workshop on Security and Trust in Decen tralized/Distributed Data Structures (STD3S), in conjuction with the 22nd International C onference on Data Engineering
Cyber Warfare in the New Age: President Bush secretly signed an order known as National Security Presidential Directive 16,directing administration officials to develop the parameters for cyber-attacks against enemy computer networks… - - -

Following are some of our favorite articles By John Perry Barlow,whom we consider to be one the significant "co-fathers" of Cyberspace. PeacePortal salutes you John, thank you for helping define and defendthe Internet space which is a potential for peers to begin paving their ownroads for advancing freedom in the Information Age.


Cognitive Dissident:
The Debate Over Internet Governance
"The Economy of Ideas"
John's EFF homepage Personal blog
John Perry Barlow Library
An interview given to Reason magazine
The Pursuit of Happiness
Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace