Knowledge in the form of an informational commodity indispensable to productive power is already, and will continue to be, a major -- perhaps the major -- stake in the worldwide competition for power. It is conceivable that the nation -- states will one day fight for control of information, just as they battled in the past for control over territory, and afterwards for control over access to and exploitation of raw materials and cheap labor.

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Jean Francois Lyotard: "Knowledge in the form of an informational commodity indispensable to productive power is already, and will continue to be, a major -- perhaps the major -- stake in the worldwide competition for power. It is conceivable that the nation -- states will one day fight for control of information, just as they battled in the past for control over territory, and afterwards for control over access to and exploitation of raw materials and cheap labor."

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Access	Afterwards	Already	Battled
Cheap	Commodity	Competition	Conceivable
Continue	Control	Exploitation	Fight
Form	Indispensable	Information	Informational
Just	Knowledge	Labor	Major
Materials	Nation	Over	Past
Perhaps	Power	Productive	Stake
States	Territory	Worldwide

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Knowledge in the form of an informational commodity indispensable to productive power is already, and will continue to be, a major -- perhaps the major -- stake in the worldwide competition for power. It is conceivable that the nation -- states will one day fight for control of information, just as they battled in the past for control over territory, and afterwards for control over access to and exploitation of raw materials and cheap labor. - Jean Francois Lyotard