Sustainability Threats to the Information Society

Abstract

The electronic communication mechanism of information has empowered human society to develop as an information society and dominate the planet. An immense amount of scholarly information has been generated in recent decades, and human technological development is far more than what was expected earlier. However, sustainability issues arose in the past decades that show the vulnerability of information society in its present form. There is a big question of why humanity is under threat despite such immensity of knowledge within it. In this chapter, probable factors behind it have been discussed. The chapter is based on an extensive literature search and analysis. The study clarifies that ethics is necessary for knowledge deployment and needs a competent political structure to make proper decisions and frame proper policies for society. The present consumer society should be replaced by a value-based society. The chapter is an original study and elucidates that environmental education is important, rather than merely environmental knowledge in society.