Introduction

Sometimes I find my self in a society in the middle of The Global Village and sometimes in a society in a little state with a large number of computers not speaking the language I usually talk. When a prevailing part of the population are working in one area the society is named after that area, allthough a lot of other things can characterize the society. The latest societies are:

• Agricultural society

• Industrial society

• Information society

The agricultural and industrial societies have come to an end. When a society comes to an end, it is usually because the efficiency of production reaches a level higher than necessary, to keep all the workers busy. Many of the workers are attracted to other kinds of work, which gives rise to the next culture.

We must imagine a similar over production of information, so that the number of people occupied by producing information will start to decline. Some say that we have reach the end point already, because we have access to information from all over the world through computers, Internet and World Wide Web in an amount larger than we can handle. But that may not be true because we are waiting for large numbers of the population to learn to utilize all that information. The demand may increase for some time to come.

We can see the extremly high impact computers have on politicians, compared to their previous interest in libraries. In Denmark more money has been put into school computers during the last five years, than have ever been used for school library books.