Information Society: A review from the future

 

    As I could read from the 2004 Information Society Report to the Parliament of Finland by Pekka Himanen (Link here) there were a point of view really well based on creativity and development. Also I can say that it was objectively optimistic and with a very good future projection refered to all the area that surrounded our society in the 2004. But lets see if the model proposed has been effective or not and if the ideas mentioned about the welfare policies and society have been accomplished.

    There were a list of trending topcis about global challenges which some of them have been fulfilled such as increasing international tax competition, the new global division of labour, population ageing, increased pressures on the welfare state, the rise of bio-industries,  regional concentration, a deepening global divide and even the spread of a “culture of emergency”; this means that the review made on 2004 has been well done in a futuristic view. It is true that some of these trending challenges are still rising so we can say that maybe in 17 more years there will still be with us.

    What is really interesting is the way of how they described the global competition models between USA, EU, ASIA and the rest (less developed countries or association of countries), for example for USA neoliberalism which is still rising in a matter of freedom, is the most powerful economical countries, militarily really powerful it fits the description of nowadays but we can say that now the Asian model has been balanced in an economical and military way, maybe not in a developed society of freedom but still a huge potential industry attracting companies due to the lower taxes and productivity policies than in other countries. EU has it has been described in  the review it is a welfare state and dependent from creative tools in order to maintain the welfare, either way the “Finnish model” (EU) has experienced a good development in areas such as technology, social interaction and polotical management. So in this way I don't think that EU is still stagnated, maybe a bit due to the Covid-19 crisis that has affected the american and european model in various ways.

    Creativity and development comes togheter so there is also in the review an interesting way of analyzing the foreing migration into the EU countries but we can say that in the ones that have more organised structures of politics, efficiency in the inustrial areas and social welfare taking care on their employees has gained a lot of foreing population for example Germany is the leader of Europe and it is because of the well develpoment in the important areas that involves a society of welfare (industry, education, sanitary system, strong govern and concerned politics). 

In my opinion the review of 2004 has been really interesting in a way of a base to develope another futuristic review of which challenges we will face now and what is the key of everything is creativity.