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−	[[Image:Information pic.jpg|right|120px|Information]] There has never been more information available than there is now. It is so abundant that many people find themselves suffering from information overload - it's finding useful and accurate information that is important. As well as the usual information sources - books, journals, academic institutions, publishers and X billion pages of the web, there is a vast and growing amount of useful information in freely available open-content resources such as [http://en.wikipedia.org Wikipedia] and other community-driven projects. We are now at a stage where information costs next to nothing to reproduce and transmit.	+	[[Image:Information pic.jpg|right|120px|Information]] There has never been more information freely available than there is now. It is so abundant that many people find themselves drowning in it - it's finding useful and accurate information that has become important. We are now at a phase of civilisation where information costs almost nothing to reproduce or transmit.
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		+	One of the most significant things in this age is that information needed to describe the constructon of physical things can be transmitted to automated machines which can then manufacture a new object or device out of massively abundant raw materials. (See [[virtual designs into physical objects]]).

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There has never been more information freely available than there is now. It is so abundant that many people find themselves drowning in it - it's finding useful and accurate information that has become important. We are now at a phase of civilisation where information costs almost nothing to reproduce or transmit.

One of the most significant things in this age is that information needed to describe the constructon of physical things can be transmitted to automated machines which can then manufacture a new object or device out of massively abundant raw materials. (See virtual designs into physical objects).