Conceptualizing Information Society as Risk Society
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The article try to find why does it seem that the recent human development will be fatal. It employ two, so called postmodern theories, the information society idea and the concept of risk society. The thesis is that the information society is itself the risk society, and risk society is itself the information society. On theoretical level, both of them describe the characteristics of the same society, the postmodern (late modern or postindustrial) society. This revelation raises important questions: Is the information society capable of surpassing the logics of industrial epoch? Creating a really sustainable development, which can redefine the directions of hazardous processes? Restructuring the methods of economy, policymaking, culture and giving us a new chance in living harmony with nature?
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