repetitive mechanical tasks. It may mean changing the way the product is distributed.
Whatever methods of improvement are chosen, the goal is the same: to produce more using less. The critical difference between now and twenty years ago is that the manufacturer can no longer just use more energy to increase productivity. It’s too expensive. Instead, the manufacturer has to become smarter at what he does.
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In an informative economy, we change from an affluent to an influent society. If you are affluent, goods and services flow toward you; if you are influent, the information contained within goods flows into you. An affluent society may possess an opulent and abundant amount of goods, but that does not mean it will be able to utilize, appreciate, and maintain them. An influent society will have less, but its relationship to what it
has will be more involved and concerned; people will take care of what they have, and what they have will mean more to them. In other words, an affluent society amasses goods, while an influent society processes the information within goods.
