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=****Image of the Future Information Society****=

The image of the Information Society
-Built on the analysis of the system of computer-communications technology (nature of the info society).
 * It will be a new type of human society, completely different from the present industrial society.-the production of information values and not material values will be the driving force behind the formation and development of society.

- this premise follows a historical hypotheses: the past developmental pattern of human society can be used as a historical analogical model for future society.
 * the developmental pattern of the industrial society is the societal model from which we can predict the overall composition of the information society

See page 18, 19 in our course reader for tables and charts for the point form comparison of the industrial society and the information society.