ABSTRACT
Among those thinkers who subscribe to the notion that a new sort of society is emerging, the best-known characterisation of the ‘information society’ is Daniel Bell’s theory of post-industrialism. The terms are generally used synonymously. It might be added that, though Bell coined the term ‘post-industrial society’ (PIS) as long ago as the late 1950s, he took to substituting the words ‘information’ and ‘knowledge’ for the prefix ‘post-industrial’ round about 1980 when a resurgent interest in futurology was swelled by interest in developments in computer and communications technologies.
