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reviewers' comments, which might reinforce, rather than revamp, the current system by specifying reviewer qualifications that reflect our existing prejudices.[26]

Zielinski, meanwhile, is equally concerned that new levels of copyright protection will choke off access to knowledge for anyone who can't pay Western rates for them. "My picture of the information superhighway," he wrote in 1996, "is a one-way flow of traffic coming down both lanes and both sides of the road from the West. The traffic on this road consists of locked security vans stretching to the horizon, steered by armed guards who speak only in cryptograms and credit card numbers. The only ordinary vehicles are being driven by a few obsessives, nerds, saintly aunts and crazed deviants. There is nothing moving in the opposite direction, no equal and opposite flow of Third World information from the South, no contraflow of counter culture."[27]Zielinski recommends a system of local pricing, free access to scientific and medical information, and free dissemination of information across the Internet, because, he notes, "information that is essential to human wellbeing should be freely accessible to all."