There are smaller systems nibbling at the lower end of the market and heroic efforts by advocates
of free access to information to provide fully reliable systems, but how could anyone beat the sheer power of LEXIS and WESTLAW in the law schools?
The conference made clear that the alliance of law librarians with technologists, political activists, and the community of scholars who seek a place
for free access to information, is upon us.
Around 1998, the Internet
provided free access to information, and then discount brokers made it so investors could use this information to do their own investment research, and then implement their own investment strategies at very low costs.
At the same time the Electronic Freedom Foundation, the dare - to - die defenders
of free access to information, would rather let things lie outside the clutches of governmental regulation.
The virtual - reality headset Oculus Rift could be used in the manufacturing industry to examine virtual models, while Google Glass could give surgeons hands -
free access to information and allow them to create video records of their actions in case of malpractice suits.
Dictators and single - party states work to preserve their own power, and
free access to information is often a threat to the status quo.
(That primary purpose is, and will remain, to provide
free access to information and resources in mental health, counselling and psychotherapy.)
«The best thing for me is how well - informed buyers and sellers are now as a result of the Internet and
free access to information and, as a result, how they value the professional advice of their agent as opposed to seeing us as just a salesperson.»
Everyone now has
free access to information that used to be impossible to find or required an agent's help.