On the Position of the Educationalist Intellectual in the Information Age: Shouldn't We Become Meta-modern Artists?

New developments are setting new challenges. Preceding societal movements, which include the ‘labour society’ or ‘work culture’, which were brought into being by the coterminous development of the economy and new technologies, have paved the way for further societal trends. Such trends have been named the ‘network society’, ‘information age’ or ‘knowledge society’ and are characterized by an unprecedented worldwide and systemic process of interconnection, integration, exchange and interdependence of national economies (Smeby and Trondal, 2005). How can we define these changing times?