Proponents of the Information Age say that we have entered a new and different kind of economic era that emphasizes the centrality of knowledge, its production, commodification, and sale. The Coming of Post-Industrial Society provides us with some useful analytic tools for thinking about the concept. IT John Buschman has edited a volume of papers that use some of the insights of STS as well as other critical approaches to information technology. A society is not simply a collection of people, but also the interrelationship among them. In the same way, technology means not simply a collection of machines, but the relationships among them, their uses, and the relationship between them and people.
Accumulated knowledge is as much a part of technology as a machine.
Ronald Wyllys, Philip Doty, Quinn Stewart, Carlos Ovalle, Lori Eichelberger, Tony Cherian, and Don Drumtra. Appropriate educational and other non-profit use of the material is encouraged, provided that this copyright notice is appended, full attribution is given, and no fees are charged for access to the material. For-profit use is strictly forbidden.