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And here are some other differences. In this snapshot I’m sticking with simple numbers because of time, there are also many many other factors that would need a lot more time to explain and discuss.
This chart shows, for some relevant factors, the European Union’s highest and lowest scoring countries. High doesn’t mean good and low doesn’t mean bad, these are simply facts. And its not the same countries, I’ve shown the difference between the highest and lowest country for each individual factor.
Look at agriculture. The information society just simply cannot mean the same thing in two countries with respectively 2 per cent and 20 per cent of the population working in agriculture. By the way, the 2 % produces much more than the 20 per cent and uses a lot more PCs and telecommunications! In the country with only 2% working in agriculture, about half of those people are primarily information workers. In the country with one fifth of its population working in agriculture perhaps 10% or less are information workers.
