As Paul Mason argues in PostCapitalism, the impacts of information technology go way beyond simple automation: they are likely to destroy the very basis of the market economy, and the relationship between work and wages.
In this context, it suffices to say that the diversity and versatility of structural disorder of proteins and of protein modifications, in addition to the consequences of rRNA and mRNA splicing, has greatly increased the repertoire of possible protein structures and functions, way beyond the information deducible from the genome.
But if the sale of this kind of information is a problem, it goes way beyond Yahoo! or eBay.
"The information trafficked by the four 'consultants' went way beyond permissible market research," said Janice K. Fedarcyk, head of the F.B.I.'s New York office.
The increasing commodification of the information on which fact-based works are based spreads way beyond drama-documentary.
The sheer quantity of purloined, as well as willingly over-shared, information floating in the cyber-sphere has pushed us way beyond mere symbolic gestures.
What began as an outflow of manufacturing jobs has spread way beyond car parts and electronics to include information technology, legal advice, even journalism.
Unlike the others (for the most part), Spock goes way beyond searching just social networks for people information.
The mobile social network that wins will go way beyond, say, Facebook's iPhone site, which doesn't leverage location information, or help you meet people around you.
I would argue that we are way beyond this; we're at the beginning of a new era: the New Information Age.
