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INFORMATION SOCIETY, KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY

eLearning and Software for Education, 2019
In the decades of the seventeenth and 20th century, the predominant phrase was Computer Science, with ideas and trends that targeted an informational society. Gradually the concept of Information Society has gained ground and has become a reality since the explosion of the Internet, the main vector of this society.
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Modern societies as knowledge societies

2001
New social realities require a new perspective. In advanced societies, the capacity of the individual to say no has increased considerably. At the same time, the ability of the large social institutions that have significantly shaped the nature of the twentieth century to get things done has diminished in the past couple of decades.
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Knowledge Society or Leisure Society?

Diogenes, 2003
AbstractSuch is the scale of information production today that the verb ‘to know’ may be heretofore declined in the impersonal. A new ‘subject of knowledge’ - the machine - is seen as removing from homo sapiens the so far uncontested role of ‘learned subject’. This calls for a rethinking of our notions of knowledge and democracy.
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Arab Societies as Knowledge Societies

Minerva, 2006
This report (hereafter AHD 2003) is a highly significant document and not only for the Arab world. Unlike most UN publications on science, technology, and Third World development, it directly relates the anaemic state of indigenous R&D in Arab countries to the reliance that 'rent-dominated' Arab political cultures have chosen to place on Western ...
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