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This sounds like a small piece of a much bigger theory. :) Care to elaborate on 'mediated knowledge'? I think I have a general notion about what you mean, but I am wondering what possible scenario you see playing out. Internet ID #'s?
Or merely poor English :) You are thinking of a more immediate threat that may actually have the unintended consequence of addressing the longer term threat of civilizational information/knowledge-base bound to a minimal industrial base requirement (aka "mediated" .. (yeah, - text/books o/c ..)).
As for the ids, the economic version already exists: I can not read a certain subset of academic research in my field as it is behind paywalls in ACM, IEEE, etc.