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between the traditional information industries are being blurred, and their survival is
in doubt. Already numerous collaborative agreements and mergers are taking place
among these industries. Will the photographic industry survive in the information
age? Will the printing industry go the way of the dinosaur? Telephone, cable, and
broadcasting networks are fighting for survival in the information age. Most likely
the traditional information industries will be realigned along the functional lines in
Table 2. There is no doubt that we will witness profound changes in the traditional
information industries over the next decade.
Even more profound is the impact that the IC has had on
global politics, e.g. the formation of the European Economic
Community at the expense of national autonomy, the push to-
ward open markets, the rise of global industries, and the de-
cline of manufacturing jobs.
Wars will be fought in the information age, both bloody
and unbloody, but ultimately in the information age we will see more transparent na-
tional boundaries, less national autonomy, and a higher world order. This is so be-
cause with the powerful technologies at our disposal, this is the only path to survival
as a people. It will not be an easy road. Change never is.
Globally industry and governments are going through a period of rebirth, a pe-
riod of a global renaissance. This renaissance is the result of the scientific discoveries
and technological advances of the past two centuries, the IC having perhaps the most
profound impact on society that the world has ever experienced.
Table 2.
The New Information Industry Players
1) Generation and production of information
2) Transmission networks
3) Information processing systems
4) Information storage systems
5) Display system
I. Read the text ‘The Information Age’. Write out all the words you don’t know.
Look them up in the dictionary.
II. Find in the text ‘The Information Age’ the sentence with the Absolute Parti-
ciple Construction. Translate it.
III. Make a written translation of the text ‘The Information Age’.
IV. Speak about the evolution of the information industry. Use Table 1.

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