Industrial+society+vs+Information+society

=The comparsion between Industrial Society and Information Society:=

(Castells pg.18)
 * || **Industrial Society** || **Information Society** ||
 * ===Core=== || Steam engine (power) || Computer (memory, computation, control) ||
 * ===Basic Function=== || Replacement, amplification of physical labour || Replacement, amplification of mental labour ||
 * ===Production Power=== || Material productive power (increase in per capita production) || Information productiv power (increase in optiomal action-selection capabilities) ||
 * ===Products=== || Useful goods and services || Information, technology, knowledge ||
 * ===Leading Industries=== || Manufacturing industries (machinery industry, chemical industry) || Intellectual industries (information industry, knowledge industry ||
 * ===Industrial structure=== || Primary, secondary, tertiary industries || Matrix industrial structure (primary, secondary, tertiary, quaternary/system industries) ||
 * ===Socio-economic principle=== || Law of price (equilibuirm of supply and demand) || Law of goals (principle of synergetic feedforward) ||
 * ===Socio- economic system=== || Private ownership of capital, free competition, profit maximization || Infrastructure, principle of synergy, precedence of social benefit ||
 * ===Form of society=== || Class society (centralized power, classes, control) || Functional society (multi- centre, function, autonomy) ||
 * ===National goal=== || GNW (gross national welfare) || GNS (gross national satisfaction) ||
 * ===Force of social change=== || Labour movemet, strikes || Citizens' movements, litigation ||
 * ===Social problems=== || Unemployment, war, fascism || Future shock, terror, invasion of privacy ||
 * ===Most advanced stage=== || High mass consumption || High mass knowledge creation ||
 * ===Value standards=== || Material values (satisfaction of physical needs) || Time- value (satisfaction of goal achievement needs) ||
 * ===Ethical standards=== || Fundamental human rights, humanity || Self- discipline, social contribution ||
 * ===Spirit of the times=== || Renaissance (human liberation) || Globalism (symbiosis of man and nature) ||

=See also=

Chapter 1: Image of the Future Information Society - (Yoneji Masuda)// //Innovation

=References=

Castells, Manuel. __"Image of the Future Information Society"__ The Information Society Reader. Ed. Frank Webster, Raimo Blom, Erkki Karvonen, Harri Melin, Kaarle Nordenstreng, and Ensio Puoskari. London and New York: Routledge, 2004. pp.18