The paper is written 4 years ago at 2004, probably today Himmanend has other great ideas to add to his theory.
The challenges that world has to face touch all the fields of human life, starting from social, educational fields. People grow older, it is an ecomonimical problem, medical challenge and continues problem that we have to face. Europe nad even USA are loosing their „number 1“ status as especially China and India jhave such a big people base that they will just override Europe and USA at some point. The more people you have the more you will have the possibilitities to find new ideas and develop them.
Economically companies find it really useful to outsource their production to China or India. But not only production is outsourced but also calling centers, knowledge, development departments. It all means that west gives voluntarily away some of the most important things that we have. Different countries have always had race to be the first to discover something, to be the first to be somewhere, but now money comes from „the west“, product goes to „the west“ but knowledge and basics are worked out and probably stay in Asia.
Himanen talks about „information society“ never forgetting the human in it. He has a theory that brings together economist, sociologist, techinican, psychologists and many other field representatives point of views. And this is the most important part about his work probably that he can understand the „problem“ from different point of view and bring it together to one theory that can even help most of the countries in the world to deal with coming problems.
