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3/19/2023

The history of information

Consider the macro historical flow and future of information production, distribution, and control. However, gossip information was excluded from consideration.


Primitive society

* Information Type: Empirical Knowledge

* Production: Older person (=intelligent person)

* Distribution channel: elder--> young child

* Means of distribution: Speaking and action

* Control: Person in power (= Older person)

In the primitive society, information was produced and distributed centering on the elderly with abundant empirical knowledge.


Agricultural society

* Information type: Product information (agricultural products, products), agricultural knowledge, academic knowledge, culture, scientific knowledge

* Production: Merchants, advanced civilizations, religious people, intellectuals.

* Distribution channel: producer--> merchant-->consumer, advanced civilization society-->intellectual people-->falling society, intellectuals-->unintelligent people, elders-->young children, books-->people

* Means of distribution: Market, speech, book

* Control: Political power, organization power (senior)

In an agricultural society, information on agricultural products and advanced civilization was distributed mainly to markets and intellectuals. The general public centered on the elderly could play a certain role in the market.



Industrial society

* Information Type: Product Information, Scientific Knowledge, Academic Knowledge, Culture

* Production: Companies, experts (scholars), labs, entertainers

* Distribution channels: merchants-->consumers, developed countries-->developed countries, media-->public, books-->people, government-->private

* Distribution means: Mass media (radio, TV, newspaper, etc.), books, computers, markets, speech, books.

* Control: Power in the regime, the media, and the organization.

In the industrial society, product, scientific knowledge, and academic knowledge exploded and information was distributed mainly through mass media due to the development of science and technology. The general public has completely lost its leading position in the production and distribution of information and has been alienated as a position that only accepts it.



Smartphone society (information society)

* Information Type: Product Information, Culture, Scientific Knowledge, Academic Knowledge, Consumer Information

* Production: Companies, Data companies, celebrities (singer, actor, sports star, etc.), research institutes, experts

* Distribution channel: company--> portal-->individual, celebrity-->media-->individual, media-->public, expert-->non-professional, young--> elder

* Distribution means: Smartphone (SNS), computer, mass media (TV, newspaper, radio), book

* Control: Law, portal companies, media

In the smartphone society (information society), "consumer consumption information" and "celebrity information" begin to be produced in large quantities, and the development of various media allows the general public to participate in distribution again, and smartphones, a combination of telephone, computer, and Internet functions, are becoming a key link in distribution.


Based on the era until adolescence, the main time to determine lifestyle, in Korea, very different culturally inclined groups consisting of agricultural (born before about 1965), industrial (born before about 1995), and smartphone (born after about 1995) live together. 


​It may be difficult because there are many heterogeneous elements, or it may be full of vitality because it is diverse.



AI society

* Information type: AI extraction information, data extraction information, consumer information, product information, culture, scientific knowledge

* Production: AI companies, data companies, celebrities (singer, actor, sports star, etc.), research institutes, experts.

* Distribution route: Company-->AI (smartphone)-->Individual

* Distribution Method: AI & Smartphone

* Control: Law, Public Opinion

Perhaps, AI will gradually become a key pillar of information production and distribution after 2025, the beginning of a new generation every 30 years, following the smartphone society (born after about 1995).




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