RecognizingRecognizing

RationalizingRationalizing

ResistingResisting

Change in a complex worldChange in a complex world

Technology and the “New Society”

SOCIETY

POLITICS

THEORY

ECONOMICS

New Paradigms for Thinking and

Acting

New Challenges for Society and Humanity

Education

Work

Health

Information

Gender

The Future

IssuesA New

Era

Harold Adams Innis

•Metropolis-Hinterland Theory•Empire and Communication•Bias of Communication

Marshall McLuhan

•The Mechanical Bride•The Medium is the Message•Hot and Cool Media• Global Village• The Medium is the Massage

Jacques Ellul

•The Technological Society•Technology v. Technique•Pessimistic Outlook

Mark Poster:

The Mode ofInformation

Neil Postman:

Technopoly

James Beniger:

The ControlRevolution

Making the Pieces Fit in New Ways

Bureaucracy & Administration

Government & Governing

Public Policy & the Policy Process

New Communities of Interest -- Actors

In the Information Age . . .

What does govern mean?

What can be governed?

Who are the governors?

Mode of Production to Mode of Communication

PrimarySectorSecondary

SectorTertiarySectorRapid Changes in the Economic System with Technological Advances

Services

Informatics

Information

New Economy:

WorkEducation

HealthUse of TimeUse of Space

Management ofResources

Learning to copein a new

economic order

S O C I TE Y

Ethn

icity

Family

Gender

Community

Ethics

Control

Equality

Evolution of Society

IndustrialRevolution

Analytical Engine

MicroprocessorInformation

Age

EVOLUTION OF CONTROL

James BenigerA New Era?

The increased influence of technology has meant a increase of “control.”

Privacy &Surveillance

Computer

Ethics

Justice Boundaries

Too much information?

Data

Information

Knowledge

Wisdom

Increasing Volume of

Information Means

More info to process

More info to store

More info to identify

More info to analyze

The Challenge:

Knowing whatto do with what there

is …

Creating

Developing

Acquiring

Distributing

Dissemination

Allocation

Destruction

OLD SCHOOL

New School???

(Image of siliconchip)

Chalk &Talk

Listen &Learn

The factsare in books

Knowledgeis power

Plug in &Do

New classroomexperiences

ComputerLiteracy?

It’s on the Web

“A state of confusion and transition that sees the gradual introduction ofinformation technologyinto the classrooms”

Unequal distributionof

resources?Info

Rich &Poor

The Mode of Information

Nature

Type

Concept

Future

(Jeremy Rifkin)

New WorkingConditions:

Education IssuesHealth Issues

Use of Time andSpace:

Part-time workTelecommuting

FlextimeShift work

Does progression in time equal progression in the position of woman

Developedv.

DevelopingWorld The Glass

Ceiling?

Is the battle ofthe sexes over?

Is it still possible to be equal?

Economic Responses to Technology = Challenges to Health

Challenges in theWorkplace

Time spentworking

Types of work

Use of working

space

Challenges in SocietyProvisionof Care

Rising Costs

IncreasingDependence

Discuss the impact on:The World

SocietyGovernment

?Increasing

Reliance on machines that

replicate human activity

efficiently

Not necessarilyabout the machines

rather, WHAT THEYDO TO US