“Challenges of the global information society” by Pekka Himanen is a review presented at the attention of the Finnish Parliament’s Committee for the Future in 2004. Himanen, born 19 October 1973, is a Finnish philosopher, researcher of the “information age”, published in 20 languages.
The author expected a lot of the predictions right despite being ~ 5 years prediction.
He expected the rise of China and India right nowadays we find the rapid rise of China economically and politically though measures taken by the US against it.
The three models were explained in a good way and we find the neo-liberal very active in the US with more aggressive actions against startups and small tech companies like Amazon with either buying the company or the idea or copying it and make it in a better way and competing the new tech company But we find European community not taking this way of treating the new companies it's more helpful with investing more on startups and growing the startup community as a whole with recommendations and advises and more.
He was a bit optimistic about the rise of genetic engineering it's only starting to rise recently.
He talked about population ageing and as a problem for Europe. The solution was simple but has many consequences for the nationalists in Europe. Simply encourage the immigration. But the result was the rise of the right wing in the whole world against this encouragement.
These were my main points on this paper overall he covered the topic in a very comprehensive way.
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