The Emergence of an Information Society

"The Emergence of an Information Society" The Emergence of an information society Background The emergence of the information society, especially in the last 50 years, brought the promise of an unlimited, open access to an infinite array of information that would improve the way we live, learn work and govern. People have observed this rise of technology and they imagined an information world that would migrate from the state of scarcity to a state of abundance, …

…The information is stored through the means of punch cards; magnetic storage; optical storage; and magneto-optical storage. The information is presented by Non-linear (Hypertext); interactive multimedia; and user-defined presentation. It is transferred through book trades; publishers; computer communication networks; and web sites. In this stage, information can be transferred at an instance. It is very cheap and quick to send information by computers. This stage is regarded as the top part on an information society.