Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-03-16-Speech-4-032"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-03-16"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Information society for All2
dcterms:Language	"fi"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20000316.2.4-032"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-03-16-Speech-4-0332
lpv:speaker	lp:Esko Seppänen2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Vasemmistoliitto (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; BUDG (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (1999-09-29--2002-01-14)3 member_of_the_bureau; EUL/NGL (1999-10-13--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Estonia Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-09-29--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, in the original paper in English, the Commission uses the words ‘information society’ and not ‘knowledge society’. These are two different things. Information is only a raw material of knowledge. Information is chaos, while knowledge is order: order out of chaos. The information society is the chaos society. The knowledge society is more than that, and it may also be a society of social order, cultural diversity and human solidarity. The information society has to date made its presence felt in the form of price quotations on a chaotic stock market. The prices of shares in technology have risen in a such a way which cannot be justified economically. Neither has the money often gone into new investment for business but to the owners, who have become millionaires and billionaires. In that way the information society emerges as a bubble economy, a symbol of social inequality and imbalance. The information society has been a matter of millionaires causing a social revolution: they have innovatively destroyed the old structures of society. Their revolution has been to sell computers and software to everyone. The rest of us should start a counter-revolution. We should set our aims higher than the Commission has done. We have to demand a knowledge society for all rather than the chaotic information society we are getting. It cannot just be a question of whether everyone has a mobile phone, how e-mail gets sent and what to buy over the Internet. At its best the knowledge society can be a social dimension of the new capitalism. The information society for all is too undemanding, too commercial and too culturally restricted a goal. We should want a knowledge society for all: that is democracy."@en1

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