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POL S 410
INFORMATION SOCIETY

A. Post-industrialism 
	1. Labor Shift: production to service 

	2. Robotic production 

	3. Communications Revolution 
	   "McWorld" & cultural sovereignty 
		a. Computers 
		b. Satellites 
		c. Fiber optics 

	4. Knowledge as power 
		a. Mode of production vs. Mode of information 
		b. Technocracy or global village? 

B. Post-industrialism & sustainability 
	1. Moving molecules and photons 
	
	2. Clean production or shadow ecologies? 

	3. Accountability in the global economy