Saturday, November 19, 2011

Best ways to transform an agricultural society to an Information-Based Economy?

Our English teacher asked us to write an essay about several ways to change a society where people depend on their agricultural products, to a society where they depend on information technology ( which means selling knowledge, advice and many stuff)


Please help me!!!|||Why don't you examine the history of societies that have done that. I think you will find that the three principal components have been making agriculture more efficient (i.e. producing more with fewer people) education and capital investment.|||There has to be opportunities available in that country to go that way. China for instance has made such a change, but it required that they have the cheaper labor force that is educated. You can't force a country to go a direction or at least for the long term. Otherwise synthetic imbalances will undermine the effort and equilibrium of the market.|||No country has made the transition directly - all have gone through at least two intermediate steps: simple manufacturing using essentially unskilled labor and high value added manufacturing using skilled labor.





Almost everyone in almost any agricultural society is relatively uneducated and so just not capable of using current info technology. So:





1. You have to find a way to get them educated as rapidly as possible, or





2. Develop info technology that does not require great education

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