Knowledge Society: Essence, Conceptual Models, and Potential for Implementation (original) (raw)
This article examines the concept of knowledge society by comparing it to information and postindustrial societies. Despite the similarity of characteristics, these concepts are different and they contain distinctive contents. The article also explores the essence of the categories of “knowledge” and “information” in science and philosophy, in particular, those embedded in the concept of “knowledge society”. Knowledge contains information, but it cannot be entirely reduced to information. The deeply interconnected notions of information and knowledge become constituent features of the new postindustrial stage in the development of the world mega-society. Their relationship is based on the understanding of the fundamental nature of these notions. Modern society is called information society due to the development and wide use of information technologies. Problems and risks arising during the construction of a knowledge society are also studied. Risks are primarily related to the diff...
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