Globalne społeczeństwu informacyjne: trzy trendy

• Autorzy: Krzysztofek K.

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Global information society: three megatrends

• Języki publikacji: PL

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The three megatrends analyzed in the paper are as follows: 1. Matrx or monitored spaceHumans wi1t not be any more a reliable source of information for thc systems collecting data on them, to make them even more algorithmic, as the information and communication technology itself iti scen more reliabie and creditworthy. This lack of confidence in humans accounts for the practice of engading computers to obtain trustworthy data, or when to control and measUre the productiviry, integrity and probity, and commitment of an employed person. It is becoming more profitable to derive information from objective systems independent from individuals. There are however some people who hold strong convictions that this will deepen the erosion of trust between people, thus weakLning social capital. 2. Bonne Societe, or desirable social order The culture and ideas are increasingly created in networks and spread out within these. These networks are reinforced by information and communication technologies as those of feedom; this is the text message generation. Cultural activities flow out of institutions into networks in which the social and cultural capital is vented; networks of self-organising and self-regulating people, creating cultures. These cultures show a high degree of individuality and specific communication codes, which make enormously for cultural variety. Citizenship is defined increasingly by cultural features, affiliation to choice groups rather than to nation-states. Information and communication technologies allow people to return to spontaneous communication. Billions of text messages, and the marc recent multimedia equivalents, emails, chats and blogs (online diaries) and dozens of thousands of discussion groups on the internet, lead to the belief that in the age of individualism, a certain form of collective intelligence and culture is emerging. 3. Deja va or more continuity than change The information society will not really be smarter than the industrial one. The conventional wisdom about (he information society is that it will enhance freedom and individualism. The reality seems different; the information society will establish its own electronic pecking order. It will be heading for a superstructure over the electronic assembly line and control over intellectual work. If anyone has a whim to do something else, the system will detect it immediately. Computers demand algorithmic discipline in the teamwork to manage and control the work flaws. If anyone does not understand this logic they behave like a deserter abandoning the assembly line. The difference between the assembly line of the industrial era and that of the information age is not qualitative. The former was based on workers using mechanical tools, and at the latter will be based on symbolic tools that demand more complex activities. In both cases the tools are at hand, in the first case hand tools in pockets, in the second, on a hard disc or on the internet.

• Wydawca: Wydział Elektroniki, Telekomunikacji i Informatyki Politechniki Gdańskiej
• Czasopismo: Zeszyty Naukowe Wydziału ETI Politechniki Gdańskiej. Technologie Informacyjne
• Rocznik: 2004
• Tom: nr 4
• Strony: 603--610
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 9 poz.

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Krzysztofek K.

• Instytut Socjologii, Szkoła Wyższa Psychologii Społecznej w Warszawie

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