Technological change and new information society (cybersociety). (continued)

Abstract

ICT (Information and Communication Technology) and high-tech products - hardware and software - are the products and the symbols of a new economy, information economy. The information economy as indicated by Castells and Hall, has spent more unnoticed that the industrial economy to which it is replacing, although the advent of what would have begun to call: digital economy, has given rise a new service economy and - naturally - of information. In fact, the information as a requirement without which the resource allocation processes, choice and decision could not be carried out under optimal conditions, is at the center of the dynamic nature of economic systems. The production network linked to information has made the information in an increasingly decisive factor in economic regulator. In short, communication and culture become part of growing as the production base that sits on advanced capitalism.