Information Society
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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.
