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An apposite appellation of dramatically forced changes in contemporary society encounters dilemmas resulting from their newly emergent properties. Moreover aspiration to entitle nature of contemporary environment briefly brings reductions of its growing complexity. Stressing some particular attributes original labels have qualified essential transformation in economic, political and cultural life by comparing with (seemingly) periods as post-industrial, post-capitalist or post-modern. The name ‘information society’ is based on recognized importance of information within society however it is inherited from evident features of modern information technology. Inconsistency of such associates with a foggy concept of information now replaced by the term ‘knowledge society’.
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Rosicky, A. (2002). Knowledge in Self-Organization Process: Hope (Finite) of System Thinking. In: Ragsdell, G., West, D., Wilby, J. (eds) Systems Theory and Practice in the Knowledge Age. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0601-0_21
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