Media, Information and Technoculture 2200F/G Lecture Notes - John Naisbitt, Alvin Toffler, Participatory Democracy
17 Nov 2011
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A society that organizes itself around knowledge in the interest of social control and the management of innovation and change - daniel bell. The information society is an economic reality and not simply a mental abstraction; new activities, operations, and products gradually come to light. - john naisbitt. A society where information is used as an economic resource - nick moore. A new type of society where the possession of information (and not material wealth) is the driving force behind its transformation and development and where human intellectual creativity flourishes. - yoneji masuda. Commodity culture has been improved by information society by: now being able to purchase stuff online. Society has made it easier for business to market their products and target them to consumers. Industries that have emerged because of information society: Information society seems to promise that things will become better for all of us, make life better. Society is creating huge changes in societies in general.
