Foresight: Volume 2 Issue 2
Strapline:
The journal of future studies, strategic thinking and policyTable of contents
The contours of the network society
Manuel CastellsThis article identifies contemporary society as a network society made possible by new information and communication technologies which are both a necessary condition for, and…
The transformation of time in the information society
Matti KamppinenThis article assesses the extent to which social transformations involve changes in their socially constructed temporal profiles and draws distinctions between cyclical, linear…
Industrial ecology, information and sustainability
Brad AllenbyThis article defines the new field of industrial ecology and identifies the fundamental premises which make this approach to the information society a significant improvement over…
The information society: environmental policy perspective and beyond
Pekka JokinenThis article discusses prospects of strengthening new increasingly global economic activities and environmental governance by focusing on the institutional relationship between…
The role of technology in shaping human society
Risto LinturiMankind has not changed biologically throughout history but human society is undergoing continuous development through the harnessing of information and knowledge in the form of…
Citizens’ communication capabilities in civil society
Marja‐Liisa ViheraThe study analyses citizens’ communication skills and expectations and demands made on these skills from the perspective of civil society. The work is both a conceptual study of…
Democracy beyond the information age: 21st century political communication
Christa Daryl Slaton, Ted BeckerThis article asserts that modern representative democracy was never intended nor designed to function as a democracy and that progress in the past two hundred years has come from…
Technology driving change: scenarios for Europe in a global information society
Robert Pestel, Peter JohnstonThis article outlines European ICT development scenarios to 2010, presents scenarios for the adoption of these technologies and network services and identifies scenarios for…
Digital discrimination
Juha NurmelaThe aim of this article is threefold: first, to discuss a framework for understanding the penetration of information and communication technology (ICT) in Western households and…
Quality, information and maps in the information age
Risto KalliolaThis article highlights the potential challenges facing a number of different sectors in the modern information‐based society and discusses problems relating to the application of…
Knowledge and wisdom in the information society
Eero PantzarRegarding the information society’s outcome, the only certainty is that there has been a revolution in the management of bit‐split knowledge and information. A flood of…
Knowledge and information in futurology
Pentti MalaskaAn account is given of futures research as a scientifically oriented field of knowledge. Its specific contemporary task as a study of transient change of the human society is…
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1463-6689Online date, start – end:
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
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- Prof Ozcan Saritas