eyedrop
7th December 2005, 01:02
I've recently working on reading a very interesting book by Erling Fossem called "Marc in Cyberspace" (written in 1995, I'll doubt it exists in English) that is about how society is changing from the standard industrial societey to the information based kind we are seing the start of now.
His hypothesis is that the growt in the western world is changing from being energy and material things based to be knowledge based and that this is causing changes in the relations in those that creates the values and their work.
He says that the modern society still produces regular vares but that it is little left for the economy to grow in that direction, the market is filled. The major growt must happen in the immaterial area of knowledge. The material industry is no longer the fuel of society.
The value of the symbol of the industrial revolution was the car which had 30% of its value, was in the metal and steel used in making it, while the symbol of the digital only has 1% of its value in the material parts used in making it.
A country can no longer survive on its natural resources, the resources of knowledge must take over.
In the feudal society 9 people had to work the farm for 1 person to could be free from food production, in the industrial society the share of farmers was reduced. In 1870 in Norway 40% worked in the primary works (not sure what it is in english, it means fishing and farming and such things) while 40% also worked in the industry, while 20 % percent where free from both. In 1995 only 12 % of the BNP( not sure what it is in english, it's practically the money produced in the society, Brutto national product) where from the industry while 3 % where from the primary works. It was estimated that in 2000 80% would be free from both food- and vareproducing. (all of the statistics were taken from the book, most of them were sourced from www.SSB.no the official statistic measurer in Norway) Altough a large part of it would be stuck a kinda useless service industry.
This shows that the industry is going to be a smaller part of modern society much like agriculture was reduced to a less important part of society.
This creates some interesting aspects.
What do you think will happen to capitalism as it changes from the industrial society to the digital society. Where the economic growt is in the digital sector and not in the material industry.
I'll write more later.
(sry for the disconnection between the headline and the text)
His hypothesis is that the growt in the western world is changing from being energy and material things based to be knowledge based and that this is causing changes in the relations in those that creates the values and their work.
He says that the modern society still produces regular vares but that it is little left for the economy to grow in that direction, the market is filled. The major growt must happen in the immaterial area of knowledge. The material industry is no longer the fuel of society.
The value of the symbol of the industrial revolution was the car which had 30% of its value, was in the metal and steel used in making it, while the symbol of the digital only has 1% of its value in the material parts used in making it.
A country can no longer survive on its natural resources, the resources of knowledge must take over.
In the feudal society 9 people had to work the farm for 1 person to could be free from food production, in the industrial society the share of farmers was reduced. In 1870 in Norway 40% worked in the primary works (not sure what it is in english, it means fishing and farming and such things) while 40% also worked in the industry, while 20 % percent where free from both. In 1995 only 12 % of the BNP( not sure what it is in english, it's practically the money produced in the society, Brutto national product) where from the industry while 3 % where from the primary works. It was estimated that in 2000 80% would be free from both food- and vareproducing. (all of the statistics were taken from the book, most of them were sourced from www.SSB.no the official statistic measurer in Norway) Altough a large part of it would be stuck a kinda useless service industry.
This shows that the industry is going to be a smaller part of modern society much like agriculture was reduced to a less important part of society.
This creates some interesting aspects.
What do you think will happen to capitalism as it changes from the industrial society to the digital society. Where the economic growt is in the digital sector and not in the material industry.
I'll write more later.
(sry for the disconnection between the headline and the text)