Mobinets: Post-Information Society Reality with Wireless/Mobile e-Technologies

摘要

Because there is no information without communication, there is no society without some form of communication. Thus, information society dominantly relies on communication. This notion asks for general shift from computer technology based information society to universal post-information society based on computerless (invisible computers) communication of information. The recent developments in information and communications technologies accompanied with the new form of computerless information appliances pose the new forms of information and communications activities on individual, company, national and global scale. The new vision of unified communications with strong mobility of network users heralds the end of the information age and outlines the structure of the mobinets society as the form of the post information society. The paper covers the basic background on information society paradigm, the current e-technologies development and the process of reshaping social activities to new forms of individual behavior towards consuming information through universal, mobile platforms. Further, post-information society readiness issues are expressed in short with the opening of new scopes for further research.