Week 3: Network and information society

In “Challenges of the global information society” raport (2004.) Finnish philosopher Dr. Pekka Himanen gives an overview of technology and economy models for three leading regions – United Stated, Asia and Europe and talks about the future of the Finnish and European information society. According to Dr. Himanen developed countries should rely on creativity and competence in order to increase productivity through innovations, it is not possible to compete with countries with low tax rates in routine jobs and routine productions. His arguments seems logical and I agree with them. Europe should take the right direction for development in order to be competitive and independent. But implementing this will take a lot of time. Changes should be done on government level first in plans of development. Also the way of thinking should be changed.