Review of the challenges of the global information society

 People have always been dreaming about the future. Inventions of the that can only be explained now, literature about the futuristic world and things that are related to space invasion can only prove the previous statement. The report of the year 2004 to the Parliament of Finland by Pekka Himanen even though it was written 17 years ago has shown us several development models and some predictions for the future which are close to nowadays situation in the world.

First of all, I would like to mention some development strategies that I consider similar to the ones mentioned by Pekka. For example, let’s overview the Singapore model and its trend of moving business production to cheaper countries. As in 2004, the world slightly has changed in locating manufacturing affiliates in such countries as China, India, or Malaysia. Apple, the flagman of the smartphone world is cheapening its industry by assembling iPhones and other products in China. Products of large clothes brands are as well using “cheap power” to make materials for future products. I think that such a tendency can only lead to reducing labor costs more and more, which is not very good. We all are trying to bring equality to some social aspects but at the same time, we somehow forget about people in the before-mentioned countries.

Secondly, I consider the so-called “Finnish” model as one that is having a great influence in today’s world. Everything is now trying to be digitalized and Estonia is serving as a good example of this. Though it may seem confusing for some elder members of society, overall it is a great experience to make less paperwork than doing logs in a database. Yes, it is not perfect but revolutionary in this area. Not to mention cryptocurrencies like Ethereum and Bitcoin, whose new approach to payment has blown the minds of millions. Ten years ago people can’t even imagine how something that is not material and is made by doing calculations can be a currency. Everybody was too skeptical about it didn’t pay attention to Bitcoin. As a result, we have lots of “painful” stories of crypto wallet owners who lost their wealth. Now we are still discovering edges of IT and no one knows what sphere will be influenced next.

To conclude, I think there are still a lot of differences between predictions and real life. We can’t take everything into account and there are too many variables that have an influence. It is unreal today to think of anything that will happen in even such a short period as 10 years realistically. The only thing which remains is just to dream.

 

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