From the industrial age to the information age

1996 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Barbara Etzel ◽  
Peter Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Information Age ◽  
Industrial Age

Understanding Globalized Digital Labor in the Information Age

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 308-326 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaime F. Cárdenas-García ◽  
Bruno Soria De Mesa ◽  
Diego Romero Castro
Keyword(s):  
Minimum Wage ◽  
Information Age ◽  
Labor Process ◽  
Manual Labor ◽  
Bottom Line ◽  
Digital Workplace ◽  
Digital Labor ◽  
Industrial Age ◽  
Social Polarization ◽  
Good For

Abstract The development of globalized digital labor brings to mind a labor process that seems to have changed dramatically from that of the industrial age. The toil of low-wage manual labor inside extensive buildings with smokestacks prevalent in the industrial age seems to have evolved into well-paid, enjoyable, meaningful labor in elegant buildings in tune with spacious vegetation-filled campuses. At the same time, social polarization is increasing with the threat of minimum-wage service labor and labor-replacing robots seeming to be the order of the day. The bottom line that drives this process seems to be the same as always, i.e. what benefits the capitalist owner is what is good for the digital workplace. This article seeks to identify and demystify the fundamental elements of digital labor in the globalized information age.

scholarly journals A rebelião das máquinas: a arte na era da comunicação aparativa

2003 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 144
Author(s):  
Eberhard Lammert
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Information Age ◽  
Communication Media ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Industrial Age ◽  
To Come

Resumo: O presente artigo contribui para uma reflexão sobre a influência da técnica sobre as artes na Era da Informatização. Desde o início da Era Industrial, nota-se a inversão gradativa de papéis entre máquina e homem: a "ascensão das máquinas" teria transformado o homem em "servo". Nem mesmo o campo das artes esteve livre dos efeitos de tal "ascensão", sobretudo no contato com os meios de comunicação de massa, como o rádio, o cinema e a televisão. Na verdade, tudo não passou de um prelúdio para o que ainda estava por vir: a informática atingiu as artes e nossa cultura fundada na tradição escrita, resultando em transformações muito mais amplas no âmbito da comunicação individual e social.Palavras-chave: arte; técnica; mediatização.Abstract: The present article brings up issues on the influence of technique on art in the Information Age. Since the beginning of the Industrial Age, there has been a progressive inversion of roles in the relation between man and machine : the "rise of machine" seems to have turned man into a "servant". Not even the field of art remained untouched by the effects of such "rise", specially in its contact with communication media like radio, cinema and television. In fact, all that was but a prelude to what was still to come: informatics reached into the arts and our writing­ based culture, causing widespread transformations in the realms of social and individual communication.Keywords: art; technique; mediatization.

Capital vs. Digital Labor in the Post-industrial Information Age: A Marxist Analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-60
Author(s):  
T. Kumar ◽  
Lalatendu Kesari Jena
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Information Age ◽  
Social Production ◽  
History Of Capitalism ◽  
Gig Economy ◽  
Industrial Age ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
History Of ◽  
Post Industrial

In the third millennium AD, humanity has reached the phase of the post-industrial information age. This age is characterized by the ubiquitous usage of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in all aspects of social reality. ICTs are not just a tool for automation of social production but are qualitatively different from other preceding technologies. It can be understood that ICTs are situated at the cutting edge of current global capitalism. There is a danger that ICTs are enhancing capitalist consumerism by converting the “complete human being” into the “complete consumer.” ICT-enabled “telework” has changed the “political economy of the home,” so that more surplus value can be extracted. ICTs have influenced the contestation of time between capital and labor that has been happening all through the history of capitalism. “Telework” and flexible production have influenced workers’ powers of collective bargaining. There are new challenges in organizing workers in the gig economy. When the ontological roots of ICTs are situated within the neo-Marxist Habermasian framework of critical theory, its potential for human emancipation is understood. On the contrary, there is also a danger that ICTs may end up as a tool to consolidate and strengthen the existing powers of the bourgeoisie. After engaging with such issues, this article surmises that the nature of the relation between capital and labor in the post-industrial information age is qualitatively different from the earlier industrial age. Nevertheless, it concludes that the possibilities of labor getting into a more just relation with capital and in the process bring about a more equitable global social order still exists.

Whatever is Next After the Prison-Building Boom will be Next in Texas

1996 ◽  
Vol 76 (4) ◽  
pp. 475-483 ◽  
Author(s):  
TONY FABELO
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Control Strategy ◽  
Crime Control ◽  
Information Age ◽  
Geographic Location ◽  
The Public ◽  
Industrial Age ◽  
Economic Forces ◽  
Perceptions Of Safety ◽  
Prison Systems

The mass media have made crime a virtual reality in our lives, affecting our perceptions of safety and thereby fueling dramatic increases in incarceration rates. However, the public safety returns for each incarceration dollar spent eventually become marginal because social and economic forces that affect crime limit the effectiveness of incarceration as a crime control strategy. At this point, we can expect support for financing further expansion of prison systems to dwindle. As information-age policies replace industrial-age policies in corrections, technology, such as geographic location systems, may be able to reduce the costs of incarceration. One consequence of this development may be isolationist policies that “zone” economically marginal criminal populations into particular areas.

scholarly journals A rebelião das máquinas: a arte na era da comunicação aparativa

2003 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 144-159
Author(s):  
Eberhard Lammert
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Information Age ◽  
Communication Media ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Industrial Age ◽  
To Come

Resumo: O presente artigo contribui para uma reflexão sobre a influência da técnica sobre as artes na Era da Informatização. Desde o início da Era Industrial, nota-se a inversão gradativa de papéis entre máquina e homem: a "ascensão das máquinas" teria transformado o homem em "servo". Nem mesmo o campo das artes esteve livre dos efeitos de tal "ascensão", sobretudo no contato com os meios de comunicação de massa, como o rádio, o cinema e a televisão. Na verdade, tudo não passou de um prelúdio para o que ainda estava por vir: a informática atingiu as artes e nossa cultura fundada na tradição escrita, resultando em transformações muito mais amplas no âmbito da comunicação individual e social.Palavras-chave: arte; técnica; mediatização.Abstract: The present article brings up issues on the influence of technique on art in the Information Age. Since the beginning of the Industrial Age, there has been a progressive inversion of roles in the relation between man and machine : the "rise of machine" seems to have turned man into a "servant". Not even the field of art remained untouched by the effects of such "rise", specially in its contact with communication media like radio, cinema and television. In fact, all that was but a prelude to what was still to come: informatics reached into the arts and our writing­ based culture, causing widespread transformations in the realms of social and individual communication.Keywords: art; technique; mediatization.

scholarly journals Cyberspace and International Order

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Madeline Carr
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Technological Change ◽  
International Law ◽  
Cyber Security ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Information Age ◽  
International Order ◽  
Cyber Attacks ◽  
Industrial Age ◽  
The World

When The Anarchical Society was published in 1977, the world was on the doorstep of seismic technological change. Forty years later, the information age has placed cyber security at the centre of many global political concerns including armed conflict and international law. The ongoing difficulties associated with accurately attributing cyber attacks introduce a new dimension of anarchy in international relations. This essay draws on Bull’s ideas about social interplay to explore the problem of attribution in cyberspace. It finds that the difficulties of identifying (even) state actors undermine some of the processes and institutions upon which Bull based his ideas. However, it also finds that Bull’s work is useful in unpicking exactly why attribution is so problematic for international relations. Ultimately, Bull’s expectation that actors will look for social solutions to maintain order appears to be holding up in the information age much as it did in the industrial age.

ICT Literacy in the Information Age

2009 ◽  
pp. 378-383 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ritchie Macefield
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Information Age ◽  
Ict Literacy ◽  
Industrial Age ◽  
Primary Means

The development of homosapien man can be classified into ages. These ages fundamentally affect the patterns of how humans work, play and interact. Some social anthropologists (e.g., Toffler & Toffler, 1994) have identified three such ages: agricultural, industrial, and information. Definitions of these ages are complex, and a detailed discussion of them lies outside the scope of this chapter, however, they can usefully be typified as follows: • The agricultural age affected us through systems geared to processing and distributing food. • The industrial age affected us through systems geared to processing and distributing energy; energy that is harnessed to provide large-scale travel and automation. • The information age affects us through systems for processing and distributing information. Therefore, in the Information Age many people will work and play exclusively using ICT systems and use this technology as a primary means of interacting with other people.

Integrating the Characteristics of the New Coming Technological Age by a Meta-Study

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 170-183
Author(s):  
Amin Torkaman
Keyword(s):  
Information Age ◽  
Paradigm Change ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Integrated Framework ◽  
Industrial Age ◽  
Base Study ◽  
Technological Age

Human beings have passed through different technological ages, from the Agricultural Age to the Industrial Age to the Information Age. Now, a new paradigm is developing called the “Conceptual Age,” which is known as the last technological age. There are many studies about paradigm change; this article aims to integrate these studies and categorize their characteristics. One of the most famous studies on technology paradigm changing has been named the “Conceptual Age.” It has been divided into seven main categories. By using meta-study method, other related studies were collected and the results were added to the base study so that the main seven senses of Conceptual Age were expanded. An expanded and integrated framework of characteristics of a new coming technological age was written that could be used as the basis for any other research on this field.

scholarly journals Mathematical modelling of information age conflict

2006 ◽  
Vol 2006 ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Moffat
Keyword(s):  
Mathematical Modelling ◽  
Information Age ◽  
The Other ◽  
Scale Free ◽  
Industrial Age

Previous mathematical modelling of conflict has been based on Lanchester's equations, which relate to the grinding attrition of “industrial-age” warfare. Large blocks of force interact in order to force defeat by a process of wearing away the other. This is no longer so relevant as a way of conceptualising warfare, and we generalise the approach so that it is more appropriate to the “information age” into which we are now moving. It turns out that the solution to this problem is the development of a theory of what we call “scale-free systems.” We first develop this theory, and then indicate how it can be applied.

What is surficial thought in architecture?

2014 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Yahya Islami
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Information Age ◽  
Philosophical Approach ◽  
The Real ◽  
Hierarchical Order ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Industrial Age ◽  
Visual Boundaries

In the early twentieth century, Modernists problematised ornament in their refashioning of architecture for the industrial age. Today, architects are formulating different responses to image and its (re)production in the information age. In both discourses of ornament and image, surfaces are often the perpetrators: visual boundaries that facilitate false appearances, imprisoning humanity in a shadowy cave of illusion. The negativity and shallowness associated with superficiality is also closely related to the separation of images from the real, where the former is seen to be a deficient representation of the latter. Such views follow a familiar metaphysical model characterised by the opposition between inside and outside and the opaque boundary that acts as a barrier. This model determines the traditional philosophical approach, which follows a distinct hierarchical order and a perpendicular movement of thought that seeks to penetrate appearances to get to the essence of things.

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