From daemon Mon Jun 12 11:15 EDT 1995 Received: from aquarius.cc.ucf.edu (root@aquarius.cc.ucf.edu [132.170.240.15]) by town.hall.org (8.6.12/941123.08ccg) with SMTP id LAA02302 for ; Mon, 12 Jun 1995 11:11:13 -0400 Received: from 132.170.121.47 by aquarius.cc.ucf.edu with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #2) id m0sLBAN-000OYdC; Mon, 12 Jun 95 11:12 EDT X-Sender: tmartin@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu (Unverified) Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Mon, 12 Jun 1995 11:13:52 -0500 To: jec@town.hall.org From: tmartin@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu (Dr. Thomas Martin) Subject: Mr. Toffler's comments... Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Length: 828 Status: RO Mr. Toffler: You are quite right that the most important factor of production is knowledge. I believe you are wrong, however, when you assert that "knowledge is not a scarce resource." The appearance of your most recent book illustrates my point. Why didn't it appear earlier? Why didn't someone else write it before you did? If knowledge were not scarce, wouldn't we all be rich? I believe you are repeating Galbraith's error (The Affluent Society) in believing that we have eliminated scarcity of critical resources. The problems we face, both economically and politically, are caused by the scarcity of knowledge and the distribution of knowledge. We can only manage that scarcity, not eliminate it. And we can only try to have the critical information at the point of decision. (Keep up the good work, Sen. Mack!)