Task 1

A. Which are the differences between the traditional industrial society and modern information society (or knowledge sosiety)?
You can write some text, but a table could also be very good product


Traditional Industrial Society
Capital form taking
Capital form mode Sell-buy
Main industry Iron and steel industry, auto industy,
petrochemicals industry,
light industry,
energy industry,
transportation industry,
telephone industry


Modern Information Society
Capital form giving
Service-customers-earn money
CMSO chip industry, intergrate circuit industry,
computer hardware and software industry, optical fibre industry,
satellite communication, mobile communication,
data transfer, Internet,
all the information service industries http://www.sm.gov.cn/xsjsm/tgyyp/b10.htm
http://baike.baidu.com/view/538705.htm

B. What kind of model is the model of the Finnish information society?
Give also (= refer) the links and sources you used.
In the Finnish model the role of the state has been considerable. State provides free education as well as funds for research and development, thus strengthening our innovation system. State is also strongly redistributing wealth by progressive taxation and universal social security. Public services are extensive including good public health care and day care for every child. Also the regulatory environment has been open to free competition in telecommunications.

http://e.finland.fi/netcomm/news/showarticle.asp?intNWSAID=9989

C. What percentage of the Finnish work force were knowledge workers (information occupations) in different times? Make a table.
Refer to the sources you used, so name them and give a link if it is in the net.
Knowledge workers percentage

1988
13%
2000
39%
2005
69%
http://www.ttl.fi/Internet/English/Information/Electronic+journals/Tyoterveiset+journal/2001-01+Special+Issue/02.htm


D. What can you say about the future knowledge work and what kind of skills it asks your self to develop?
Refer to the sources you used. Who wrote it, and give a link.
The knowledge work will take more and more percentage in the whole society. Nowadays, developed countries have more than half percentage of knowledge workers, and in the future decade, 80 percentages of the worker will be knowledge worker in the world.

For what we can do, we need to learn more skills, more creative, and more powers in investing and solving problems.

http://baike.baidu.com/view/538705.htm


E. What other interesting points did you learn while working with this task?
Refer to the sources you used.
I am interesting in what else and further will the information society bring to the human. What will the future like?