The battlefield of the (past and) future.
After what seems to be at least 120,000 times that the phrase shows up on a Google
search, it seems that the notion of information being a weapon has become a truism.
Perhaps it's become such a truism that we hardly know what it means. In industry
and marketing being the first to know is apparently a great advantage, and even
on more traditional battle grounds it's information that keeps us a step ahead
of our adversary. But well before any period that we might recognize as an information
age, knowing something your enemy didn't, and being able to use that information,
was an integral part of warfare, as important as the terrain
and the firepower. Today, information is certainly no less an integral part
of warfare than it's been for generations, but I doubt that it's become a more
integral part.
Go to: It's too quiet here - I can't think.