Journal of Futures Studies, November 2006, 11(2): 35 60 It is widely accepted in the literature dealing with social and educational change, that the world is experiencing an information and technology revolution. Globally, more and more people are entering a "post-industrial, globalized, pan-capitalist" world and a "post-information" and "networked" society (Milojevic 2002: 166). Rapid changes ...

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The paper deals with an interrelation between social and cognitive phenomena associated with transition of the society to the post-industrial epoch. Ideas triggered our study came from two different fields: sociology and epistemology. From the sociological point, we consider the Post-industrial society as a virtual society, where artificial interfaces more and more separate individuals from the...