“The more information available to the average person, the greater the synergy that develops from it.”

—  Tom Clancy

1990s, Schafer interview (1995)
Context: America is the most inventive country in the world. Why? Because everybody has access to information. In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph of a train station. Look what happened to them. They tried to classify everything. The more information available to the average person, the greater the synergy that develops from it.

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