Information Society

To me, the term information society means living in a society where information is ever present, be it through technology or simply through a conversation with your peers. The term information is defined as knowledge communicated or recieved concerning a particular fact or circumstance. Society is defined as an organized group of persons associated together for religious, benevolent, cultural, scientific, political, patriotic, or other purposes. From these definitions I gain that an information society can be described as a group of people that is knowledgable about a certain or many different facts. Because we live in a society where the center of most of our day to day lives includes cell phones, computers, television, radio, and many other technologies, we are always being presented with new information. At any point in time we are able to access any kind of information that we may want to know. Simply by accessing Google, we can learn the answer to any questiont that we may have (besides maybe what secrets is the government holding). I would say that this is definitely an information society that we live in and with each day that passes it becomes more and more so.