The focus is on how individuals, organizations, and businesses often exploit their access to information at the expense of others. Entire industries have attained great success and many significant historical events have transpired as the result of an imbalance in the flow of information.
The authors describe a story of a man who helped cripple the racist Ku Klux Klan simply by widely disseminating their secrets. Stetson Kennedy infiltrated the group in the World War II time period and documented the secret rituals and codes of the organization. Kennedy then gave the records and reports to Hollywood writers, who used the information to create a long-running story on the wildly popular Superman radio program. Children across the United States imitated the shows in their schoolyard games, and gradually, the mystery and influence of the group were diminished.
The author also explores the real estate industry and the behavior of real estate agents. By reviewing data about real estate agents typical practices when they are selling their own houses, the author found that they may not always have their clients’ best interests at heart.
Also, the author claims that the world wide web / Internet has started a shift in many industries simply by providing consumers with more information than they have ever had access to before in the past.
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