An information service society

Society is steadily moving from a material goods society to an information service society. At the time of the American Revolution, say 1780 or so, over 90% of the people were essentially farmers—now farmers are a very small percentage of workers.

What will the situation be in 2020? As a guess I would say less than 25% of the people in the civilian workforce will be handling things; the rest will be handling information in some form or other. In making a movie or a tv program you are making not so much a thing, though of course it does have a material form, as you are organizing information.

  1. ​Auditory Hallucinations from Offworld Megafarms​
  2. ​Data Farming​

I like the concept of an 'information farmer' as a kind of dystopian techno-future job description.