As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth's final century, free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny. The once-chained people whose leaders at last lose their grip on information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but the free nation gradually constricting its grip on public discourse has begun its rapid slide into despotism. Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master. 
-- Commissioner Pravin Lal 
"U.N. Declaration of Rights"


The world isn't run by weapons anymore, or energy, or money. It's run
by little ones and zeroes, little bits of data. It's all just
electrons.
Cosmo, Sneakers

There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about
who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the
information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's
all about the information!
Cosmo, Sneakers

Matter is simply frozen information. . .

-- Timothy Leary, Pataphysics Magazine, 1990.