On the other hand, many technical questions of measurement remain, and understanding the transition from industrial to information economy is as much an open field as developing concepts of the nonmaterial economy itself. Warnfried Dettling offered seven theses on the influence of globalization and digitalization on society and the world of work, emphasizing the changes in Western Europe and the paradoxical effects of the digital revolution. First, globalization leads to redistribution of wealth both among and within nations. First, second and third world conditions can be found within a given society. Second, globalization tends to make industrialzed societies richer as a whole, but also to increase disparities within them.
Globalization brings, and requires, concentration on high value-added activities.
This revolution changes not only the amount of work done in a society but also the type of work that is done. Although digital societies will on the whole grow richer, there are critical questions to be answered in the organization of the working world, in the organization of social cohesion, and in the organization of individual life plans. Fourth, work in the digital era will be more intelligent and more fulfilling, but it will also bring greater responsibility down to the individual level and increase the consequences of individual errors. Production in the digital era is also likely to take place among small, professional, homogeneous units. This will further encourage the segmentation of society.