Introduction:
There are 3 revolutions that have changed the human society up to now. The first was Agricultural Revolution, the second was the Industrial Revolution and now we are experiencing the revolution of Information.
In the narrower sense, information society is a new type of society and it can perhaps be understood as a society that has developed information technology and is learning how to use it. However, the revolution in our way of living is not just affected by technology, but also from economic, political, occupational, spatial and cultural aspects.
Technological Definition
In modern times, the appearance of new technologies become part of the most significant indicators e.g. mobiles, cable and satellite television, the Internet, personal digital assistants (PDAs) etc.
As people start to realise that the communication and memory are the most important things for human, we have invented wide range of media and developed system enable us to do so. For example, computer---?electronic brain' is one of the most significant developments in information society. Nowadays, computers can be found in almost every office and many homes and involves our routine life, from area of commerce to education etc.
Economic Definition
As we know that information is comparatively not free. From economic point of view, we could say that the information society charts the growth in economic worth of informational activities (Frank Webster, 2002, p12). For example, growth in the economic worth of advertising and television is one of the indicative of an information society.
It is not possible to calculate the cost of information, however, it is far more difficult to know the value. ...