ABSTRACT
The claim, by proponents of the information society, that '"informisation" will result in the blossoming of intellectual creativity' can be interpreted in two ways. In the first place, we could imagine a situation where the new technologies of the information society neither destroyed old jobs nor created new ones, but simply made the content of existing jobs more intellectual, creative and satisfying. It is this upgrading of the content of work which the information society theorists seem to have in mind when they suggest that 'With the construction of the information Communica tions infrastructure and the diffusion of information equipments, people will spend considerably less time going from place to place, delivering documents and looking for reference material. At the same time, the amount of time used for intellectual activities is expected to increase.'1
