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     In our technocratic society it has become fashionalbe 
for  technicians  to  create  information:   ensymbolment, 
storage,   and  retrieval  systems  ---  in an effort   to 
facilitate the communication of valued information.  Their 
systems are oflimited value because there is not incarnate 
within the sytem validating elements which can distinguish 
valuable,    from   non-valuable   information.    Another 
difficulty with the  technocratic  systems of  information 
distribution is that they are  essentially  passive  until 
they  are interrogated by someone,   or  on behalf of some 
one,  who has indicated a  desire  for  certain  types  of 
information.  The stytem, becauase of its design,  can not 
take an initaitive to perceive that a  certain  individual 
who has not interrogated the stytem with regard to certain 
information,  is in need of that information.  The  system 
can  not  attempt to break through  a  person's  defensive 
system   of   collusions   which   exclude   much   needed 
information.   Thus,   individuals  are  emprisoned  in  a 
situation in which they are likely to learn only the kinds 
of  things  that  they choose to seek out.  Thus they  are 
unlikely to gain new perspectives,  as often as they might 
need them. 

If,   rather than  a technocratic information distribution 
system,   there  was  a  humane  information  distribution 
system,   the situation would be different.  Suppose  that 
each  person  had a sense of responsibility to call to the 
attention of a reasonable  number of others,   information 
perceived by self to be of likely value to others. Suppose 
that  each person had a sense of  responsibility  to  make 
known  to  others  what kinds of  information  each  would 
appreciate  having  brought to their attention,   and  the 
kinds  of problems on which they were working.  Were  this 
the case,  then the elements of the information management 
system  might  meet  each  other  half  way  in  a  humane 
information distribution process; or more than half way in 
either direction --- offering or seeking. 

A  humane  information  management  system  in  which  the 
incarnation of information plays the central role,   would 
avoid  many  of  the problems  generated  by  technocratic 
information  management systems,  which have no  sense  of 
value, and lead to an accumulation of unused facts; rather 
than to the maintenance of wisdom in a humane society.    
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