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Information-Economy Star Civilizations

Information-economy star civilizations imagine societies in which the decisive resource is not simply land, labor, metal, or even money, but information itself: who gathers it, who compresses it, who verifies it, who withholds it, and who can turn it into prediction. Drawing on information theory, post-industrial and knowledge-economy thought, network-society analysis, cybernetics, and fiction about data-rich interstellar futures, the framework explores how a civilization might become economically organized around signal, code, and cognition.