Where Is the Information Revolution Taking the World?
The information revolution is taking the world towards a future characterized by: • a rise in information work and information workers; • new business models, for the internal organization and functioning of business enterprises and for their external interactions with customers, suppliers, and competitors; • the rise of electronic commerce; • challenges to the power and authority of the nation state; • the creation and empowerment of a wide variety of new, non-state (often global) political actors; • an ever increasing porosity of national borders; • many new winners, and also many new losers; and • new fault lines, within and between nations.
