major reason for the significant impact of knowledge will have on future society is found in the growing size of the knowledge base. Considering its present size, even a significant reduction in the rate of knowledge growth would not preclude a continued significant growth in the absolute level of knowledge.
Facilitating the use of the expanding knowledge base are the advances in communications and computer technology. These advances add materially to the accessibility and usability of the knowledge base. As advanced as both communications and computer technologies appear to be in contemporary society, they are both actually in their infancies. It is, in the early 1990s, difficult to speculate the extent that the accessibility and the usability of the knowledge base will be enhanced by further advances in these two technologies by 2000. One thing appears to be certain the qualitative character of the knowledge base in post industrial society will differ markedly from that of industrial society. Economic organizations in post industrial society will be req
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