Information Society- the consept and related notions

Information technology has been of great importance to social development in recent decades. Technology has in short time changed the pattern of communication in society and created new jobs, learning and research arenas. In earlier times the flow of information was slow, but in the 1800s there was a revulotion in information exchange, initially, there was the telegraph before the phone arrived a few decades later. In the last 20 years ICT and multimedia has had an explosive development and we receive a lot of information very fast. Previously, it was enough to be able to read to acquire knowledge from books. Today it is required that one seeks this knowledge through various media and also that we can contribute text and photos ourselves. This development has created a growing need for people with expertise in applying information and to express themselves both orally and writing. Society needs people who can understand, utilize and further develop technology, but also need people with a conscious and critical attitude to what technology does to people and society. The amount of information is big and must be read and looked at with critical eyes. Many are able to collate and interpret this information, while some are not able to do it. It is said that they who not are able to do this is the new illiterate. and that this issue creates class distintions.