In earlier posts tribal, agrarian and industrial society were discussed. In this post, post-industrial society will be discussed. One may wonder about the title and they may have an urge rename it as “information society.” Lot of definitions exists for information society [1]. Industrialization of a nation is gauged by amount of petroleum or energy usage. Likewise two metrics can be used for information society. First is extent of information usage. Next is economy of a country should hang on information production (for example movies, music videos, books, information equipments etc). So it is better to leave the discussion on information society to economists and social scientists. The present digital society may lead us to information society.
This is one part of series of articles dealing with evolution of societies. In the present society we encounter lot of displays. These articles try to find out the answer for “rise of display and smart devices.” I firmly believe engineering, technology, economics and end user behaviour has to be studied as a whole and not in isolation. That is why article like this appear in this blog which is dedicated to Digital Image Processing.
The post-industrial society can be broadly classified into pre-digital and digital society. In Industrial society electricity was used a form energy like coal and petroleum. In digital society, electricity is used to transport information. In digital society, information production, distribution and consumption happens in binary form i.e. ones and zeros. In pre-digital society analog signals were used and optional use of electronic components.
