The Knowledge-based economy stands in focus for much of European policy and is also a policy issue within the OECD. The discourse on the coming of the knowledge (based) society and/or the knowledge (based) economy – with roots in the 1980s may be looked upon as a transformation of the still older discussions on the post industrial society (cf. eg. the foreword in Bell, 1973/76). Common proposit...

in the netherlands, serious soil investigations were started in the mid-1800s and in the mid-1900s with university courses and the establishment of research institutes soil science rapidly expanded. the dutch and western european society have changed dramatically in the past century from and early industrial society with a dominantly rural and agricultural character to a post-industrial society...

During the 20th century, the modern media was born and viewed as an industrial factory-model machine. These powerful media such as film, radio, and television transmitted culture to the passive masses (Enzensberger, 1974). These art forms were divorced of ritual and authenticity and were reproduced to reinforce their prowess (Benjamin, 1936). In the 21st-century post-media condition, a process ...