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The Development of Human Civilization (3) : The Age of Information
By admin | October 9, 2009
Mass production began to fade in the background, while information and knowledge improves the economy of developing countries. The central figure in this age is intellectual labors. Its main character is left brain-oriented mindset. In the age of information, the use left brain, which glamorizes rationalism, logical, and literal, causes specialization becoming a mode.
The age of information does not only have impacts on technology, but also on human, community, and organizations. The new industrial sectors are appeared from various fields, such as computing (computers, software, services), communications (telephone, cable, satellite, wireless), and content (entertainment, publishing, information providers) (Tapscott, 1998: 11).
Innovations drive economic information to update products, systems, processes, marketing, and people. Changes in the ways of production from the mass to customization and development of factory plants nearing the market are new ways to make industry becoming productive, competitive, and high quality.
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