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Society running on information -- vs. industrial society which runs on machines.  
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The phrase Information Society is used to describe a society whose main means of production is based on information vs. an industrial society whose main means of production of value is based on machine.
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"An information society is a society in which the creation, distribution, diffusion, use, integration and manipulation of information is a significant economic, political, and cultural activity".<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_society Wikipedia - Information Society]</ref>
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<blockquote>"If the goal of industrial society is represented by volume consumption of durable consumer goods or realization of heavy mass consumption centering around motorization, (an) information society my be termed as a society with highly intellectual creativity where people may draw future designs on an invisible canvas and pursue and realize lives worth living”. -[[Yoneji Masuda]], author of [[The Information Society as Post-Industrial Society]].</blockquote>
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Masuda is regarded as one of the first persons discussing the arrival of the information society in the early 1980's.
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===Further Reading===
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*[[The Information Society as Post-Industrial Society]]
  
See Masuda
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==References==
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Revision as of 22:16, 29 March 2011

Definition

The phrase Information Society is used to describe a society whose main means of production is based on information vs. an industrial society whose main means of production of value is based on machine.

"An information society is a society in which the creation, distribution, diffusion, use, integration and manipulation of information is a significant economic, political, and cultural activity".[1]

"If the goal of industrial society is represented by volume consumption of durable consumer goods or realization of heavy mass consumption centering around motorization, (an) information society my be termed as a society with highly intellectual creativity where people may draw future designs on an invisible canvas and pursue and realize lives worth living”. -Yoneji Masuda, author of The Information Society as Post-Industrial Society.

Masuda is regarded as one of the first persons discussing the arrival of the information society in the early 1980's.

Further Reading

References

  1. Wikipedia - Information Society