HARRY 3 on Nostr: Further notes and reflections from the “Sovereign Individual “ Page 268 The new ...
Further notes and reflections from the “Sovereign Individual “
Page 268
The new society, and therefore the new culture, will be defined at one end by what machines can do better than people, by automation that will do away with increasing numbers of low- skill tasks,and at the other by the power that information technology gives to people who actually have the talent to take advantage of it. Such a society will have greater tensions between a small class, who might be called the information aristocracy, and a growing underclass , who might be called the information poor. The information aristocracy will be extremely mobile, since they will be able to earn money in any locale that is attractive to them.
Page 268
The new society, and therefore the new culture, will be defined at one end by what machines can do better than people, by automation that will do away with increasing numbers of low- skill tasks,and at the other by the power that information technology gives to people who actually have the talent to take advantage of it. Such a society will have greater tensions between a small class, who might be called the information aristocracy, and a growing underclass , who might be called the information poor. The information aristocracy will be extremely mobile, since they will be able to earn money in any locale that is attractive to them.