Rape, Swedish-style

[Ian Livingston]

>Now (as people have been saying for
> fifty years) we are in the Information Age. Which, by the way, the OED
> defines for us in its dry-as-chili-powder prose: “the era in which the
> retrieval, management, and transmission of information, esp. by using
> computer technology, is a principal (commercial) activity.”

I think the OED is right on the spot. It's about commerce.

On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 7:33 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2010/dec/08/information-palace/
>
> The word “information” has grown urgent and problematic—a signpost
> seen everywhere, freighted with new meaning and import. We hardly need
> the lexicographers of the Oxford English Dictionary to tell us that,
> but after all, this is what they live for. It is a word, they tell us,
> “exhibiting significant linguistic productivity,” a word that “both
> reflects and embodies major cultural and technological change,”
> therefore a word crying out for their attention. In their latest
> quarterly revision, December 2010, just posted, the entry for
> “information” is utterly overhauled.
>
> The renovation has turned a cottage into a palace. Information, n.,
> now runs 9,400 words, the length of a novella. It is a sort of
> masterpiece—an adventure in cultural history. A century ago
> “information” did not have much resonance. It was a nothing word. “An
> item of training; an instruction.” Now (as people have been saying for
> fifty years) we are in the Information Age. Which, by the way, the OED
> defines for us in its dry-as-chili-powder prose: “the era in which the
> retrieval, management, and transmission of information, esp. by using
> computer technology, is a principal (commercial) activity.”
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 7:37 AM, Otto <ottosell at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> "Information. What's wrong with dope and women? Is it any wonder the world's gone insane, with information come to be the only real medium of exchange?" (258)
>



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