Yet it is the information age, we are assured, because the key commodity for the twenty-first century is information. The technological developments of the last two or three decades mean that information can be moved around the world at speeds qualitatively (as well as quantitatively) different from the transport of goods. The consequences are economic and political: the information industries need no longer be located within a confined geography, and thus may seek out labour wherever it is most profitably available; governments may need to adopt different approaches to their relationship with business, while at the same time deploying new technologies to make this new information more widely and equitably available.
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Posted: June 9th, 2008, 7:40am CEST
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It was to be expected that a new millennium should bring with it a flurry of observers claiming that we stand on the threshold of a new society. We have not been disappointed. The media excitement at the fantastic financial speculation on the high-tech and internet stock market is but one instance cited to support this claim. This new society is labelled variously the information society, the knowledge society, the knowledge economy or, as this book chooses for no particular reason, the ‘information age’. The contributors to this book examine various features of today’s world, and find little evidence of a new information society.
Yet it is the information age, we are assured, because the key commodity for the twenty-first century is information. The technological developments of the last two or three decades mean that information can be moved around the world at speeds qualitatively (as well as quantitatively) different from the transport of goods. The consequences are economic and political: the information industries need no longer be located within a confined geography, and thus may seek out labour wherever it is most profitably available; governments may need to adopt different approaches to their relationship with business, while at the same time deploying new technologies to make this new information more widely and equitably available.
Yet it is the information age, we are assured, because the key commodity for the twenty-first century is information. The technological developments of the last two or three decades mean that information can be moved around the world at speeds qualitatively (as well as quantitatively) different from the transport of goods. The consequences are economic and political: the information industries need no longer be located within a confined geography, and thus may seek out labour wherever it is most profitably available; governments may need to adopt different approaches to their relationship with business, while at the same time deploying new technologies to make this new information more widely and equitably available.
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