America Beyond 2001 | Information Technology Criminals, 2010

Organized crime has invaded the Information Society. With today’s satellites, telecommunications, video technology, and computers, the world of information is open to everyone, and the ability to use information—to turn it into knowledge—is a source of power.

Criminal organizations of the twenty-first century will continue to use violence and wealth (their most common sources of power in the twentieth century), but they will also increasingly use knowledge to enhance the power they already have. The top guns of twenty-first-century criminal organizations will be educated,...

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