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Introduction

Blockchainized Bachelor’s Thesis

Blockchainized Bachelor’s Thesis – Initial Brainstorm

Thesis

1.Abstract

2.Preface

3.Introduction

4.Definitions of terms and premises

4.1.Information

4.2.Information explosion

4.3.Information age

4.4. Information society

Sources walkthrough

1.Battling Information Overload in the Information Age

2.1.The knowledge-attention-gap: Do we underestimate the problem of information overload in knowledge management? pt.1

2.2.The knowledge-attention-gap: Do we underestimate the problem of information overload in knowledge management? pt. 2

3.Database Research faces the Information Explosion

4.The experience of mobile information overload: struggling between needs and constraints

5.Longer online reviews are not necessarily better

6.An ant-colony based approach for real-time implicit collaborative information seeking

7.A psychological framework to enable effective cognitive processing in the design of emergency management information systems

Case study: Interview

1.First draft

 

4.4. Information society

As is already usually the case in information science, the terms do not have a simple, exact definition. Information society is no exception. There are several potential ways through which societies can be labelled as information ones, but they all seem inadequate when they stand alone. Every society has used some form of recorded information across various domains over the past few thousand years and has often considered these documents to be important and valuable. However, we do not consider these societies to be information societies just because they used information and found it valuable [4].

 

The first premise that must be fulfilled in order for the society to be labelled as information one is a certain degree of development that provides the sort of trouble-free survival of the vast majority of people living in it. If the lower point of Maslow's pyramid is not fulfilled [12], there is almost no motivation to be active with information (apart from information directly associated with survival). This thesis is without doubt proven by the theory of the selfish gene described in the subchapter Information, or the Maslow pyramid itself.

 

If the first premise is fulfilled, certain combination of economic and socio-cultural computerization with the help of technologies has to occur in order for the society to be ultimately labelled as information society. At first, the society must have strong enough and expanded information and communication technologies (ICTs). In such an environment, information gains a whole new power and can form unprecedented information networks. In such an environment, new economic rules and possibilities are also emerging. Non-information professions are becoming much more knowledge-based, the trend can actually cause a situation where there would be close to no jobs that could be done without any knowledge (which was very frequent throughout our history). The total value (wealth) created by the society is increasingly based in intangible information commodities [4]. And thus society enters the information era.

 

I agree with Karel Popper's theory of "open society" and I believe it is another "evolutionary stage" of the information society as I have described it in previous paragraph. An open society is a society based on legal norms where all these standards are known and people are equal in front of them. Those who are responsible for creation of these standards can be replaced in a non-violent way at any time and society moves forward through rational discussion and open criticism of the status quo. It is therefore a form of society dependent on the free flow of information. In such an environment, "people would practically never have to meet face to face. All trading, voting and other actions could be done by individuals in isolation." When Karl Popper's theory was introduced in 1945, there was no way for him to know how the future "trustless” technologies may greatly not only help, but fully enable the fulfilment of this vision. But the truth be told, states remain to be the authorities that have the power to issue laws and regulations. They are the authorities that provide the frameworks for these societies. These have an impact on the form of intellectual property, copyright, data protection, privacy, freedom of information and censorship in all areas [4]. Only future can tell where the information society will evolve further.

Sources

4.BAWDEN, David a Lyn ROBINSON. Introduction to information science. Chicago: Neal-Schuman, 2013. ISBN 978-1555708610.

12.MASLOW, Abraham H. Toward a psychology of being. 3rd ed. cNew York: J. Wiley, c1999. ISBN 978-0-471-29309-5.

 

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