RonPrice Posted February 14, 2012 Report Share Posted February 14, 2012 I began my university entrance studies in 1962. I completed my final year of baseball, having decided not to play the game in organized leagues ever again, and began my travelling and pioneering for the Canadian Baha’i community in the small town of Dundas at the heart of Ontario’s Golden Horseshoe in the same year. The case for the information society, what became known as the information age thesis, was also launched in 1962 by Fritz Machlup’s Production and Distribution of Knowledge in the United States. This book brought to the fore for the first time the large and increasing role of the ‘knowledge industries’ in an advanced economy. By the 1970s there was a whole literature which concerned itself with this knowledge industry. Machlup(1902-1983) divided information use into five types of knowledge: • practical knowledge • intellectual knowledge, that is, general culture and the satisfying of intellectual curiosity • pastime knowledge, that is, knowledge satisfying non-intellectual curiosity or the desire for light entertainment and emotional stimulation • spiritual or religious knowledge, and• unwanted knowledge, accidentally acquired and aimlessly retained -Ron Price with thanks to Alistair Duff, The Normative Crisis of the Information Society, in the Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberspace: Cyber-psychology, Vol.2, No.1, June 2008. I was beginning to be swampedby that knowledge explosion &had no idea that information was enveloping society as well as meas I tried to study nine subjects in1962/3, and then five subjects in1963/4. I was so bludgeoned bythe endless words and that mildschizo-affective state as well asthose erotic entanglements thata curtain parted this lover & theloved one. Secrets were many &strangers were myriad while theworld of knowledge had been somultiplied that my journey in thespirit of search was hidden by theveilings of sense.1 I nearly missedthe knowledge of the Manifestationof the Sun of Reality in those daysof confusion and long beginnings. 1 Baha’u’llah, The Seven Valleys, Baha’i Pub. Trust, Wilmette, 1952, p.24. Ron Price14 February 2012 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turtle Posted February 14, 2012 Report Share Posted February 14, 2012 I began my university entrance studies in 1962. I completed my final year of baseball, having decided not to play the game in organized leagues ever again, and began my travelling and pioneering for the Canadian Baha’i community in the small town of Dundas at the heart of Ontario’s Golden Horseshoe in the same year. The case for the information society, what became known as the information age thesis, was also launched in 1962 by Fritz Machlup’s Production and Distribution of Knowledge in the United States. This book brought to the fore for the first time the large and increasing role of the ‘knowledge industries’ in an advanced economy. By the 1970s there was a whole literature which concerned itself with this knowledge industry. Machlup(1902-1983) divided information use into five types of knowledge: • practical knowledge • intellectual knowledge, that is, general culture and the satisfying of intellectual curiosity • pastime knowledge, that is, knowledge satisfying non-intellectual curiosity or the desire for light entertainment and emotional stimulation • spiritual or religious knowledge, and• unwanted knowledge, accidentally acquired and aimlessly retained -Ron Price with thanks to Alistair Duff, The Normative Crisis of the Information Society, in the Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberspace: Cyber-psychology, Vol.2, No.1, June 2008....Ron Price14 February 2012 arguably any historical milestone in facilitated communication could be a marker of an "information society". the first smoke signals, the first semaphore, the first writing, the first printing, the first telegraph, first telephone, first radio, first tv, first internet, and whatever is yet to come. all heralded by some while castigated by others. promised land and hell in a handbasket all at once. cat's out o' the bag, jin is out of the bottle, and pandora's box is wide open. c'est la vie. on another note, your "pioneering for the Canadian Baha’i community" is our proselytizing and something to avoid here if you please. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RonPrice Posted February 14, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 14, 2012 arguably any historical milestone in facilitated communication could be a marker of an "information society". the first smoke signals, the first semaphore, the first writing, the first printing, the first telegraph, first telephone, first radio, first tv, first internet, and whatever is yet to come. all heralded by some while castigated by others. promised land and hell in a handbasket all at once. cat's out o' the bag, jin is out of the bottle, and pandora's box is wide open. c'est la vie. on another note, your "pioneering for the Canadian Baha’i community" is our proselytizing and something to avoid here if you please.--------------------Hardly proselytizing, Turtle. If you go to this link, Turtle, you will see that what I have done here is hardly proselytizing by any stretch of the imagination: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proselytism -Ron Price, Tasmania Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turtle Posted February 14, 2012 Report Share Posted February 14, 2012 --------------------Hardly proselytizing, Turtle. If you go to this link, Turtle, you will see that what I have done here is hardly proselytizing by any stretch of the imagination: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proselytism -Ron Price, Tasmania no thank you. i am only concerned with your material here and i had no problem making the stretch. thanks for your cooperation in this matter. care to discuss my other comments on "information societies" without reference to your faith? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RonPrice Posted March 1, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 1, 2012 no thank you. i am only concerned with your material here and i had no problem making the stretch. thanks for your cooperation in this matter. care to discuss my other comments on "information societies" without reference to your faith?------------------I just saw your Valentine's Day post, Turtle. I'll try to get back to this issue of the information society after I've had a good sleep and some breakfast.-Ron in Tasmania Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sigurdV Posted March 1, 2012 Report Share Posted March 1, 2012 Hi Ron! I just created a thread in the theological forum for you..."What is the Bahai Religion?" Hopefully you will enter it to give an informative answer with as little preaching as possible :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RonPrice Posted July 9, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 9, 2015 I just saw the above post after more than 3 years. Thanks for letting me know about that "theological forum".-Ron Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HydrogenBond Posted August 11, 2015 Report Share Posted August 11, 2015 (edited) The Information age is nothing but the collecting of data. This is driven by business and the selling of computer memory and electronics that can collect data; cameras. It justifies bigger and new, when old is not worn out. I hope an analysis age comes next. This is where we say we have enough data, and now it is time to make sense of it. As an example, say a person posts their day to day life on FaceBook. This is sharing information, like I had a bagel for breakfast. But what does all those years of data collecting and posting mean, in the sense of a complete life? Does it make any larger sense, or is it nothing but random short term information that leads to nowhere? If the latter was determined to be the case, after data analysis, maybe the post data will change to reflect a larger game plan; quality instead of quantity. Edited August 11, 2015 by HydrogenBond Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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