2004 Information Society Report to the Parliament of Finland
In 2004, Dr Pekka Himanen, a doctor who specialized in philosophy and computer science, released a report on the challenges, that global information society In 2004, Dr Pekka Himanen, a doctor who specialized in philosophy and computer science, released a report on the challenges, that global information society presents. Himanen focuses on five core issues, that would arrive in the future. Himanen provides us with three models, that could help us better our society. 1. Silicon valley model, The Silicon Valley model refers to the neoliberalist scenario of “leaving the weak behind”. Although this scenario is technologically and economically dynamic, it comes with a high social price. For example, the Silicon Valley area itself produced 60 millionaires a day at the end of the 1990s, but they had to move to fenced residential areas, because a society that leaves some of its citizens in the margin is a society of fear, while a lot of people live in povert...