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In other words, the relation of difference between calculability and unpredictability is actually one of interdependency and what holds them apart is the spatial and temporal spacing of différance. Thus, Differance marks the opening of a system of differences in which everything acquires meaning and value . . ‘[W]ithout differance as temporalization, without the nonpresence of the other inscribed within the sense of the present’ [Derrida 1976: 71], nothing could be said to have meaning or value in ‘itself’.
The scholarly literature on the subject is variously utopian – the knowledge society promises ‘greater affluence, leisure and intellectual creativity’ – and dystopian – it augurs ‘profound threats to economic welfare and political freedom’ (Morris-Suzuki 1988: 1). Even the most thorough and widely-cited theorization, Bell’s (1973) post-industrial thesis, is, in many ways, an exercise in social forecasting. Nonetheless, according to Böhme and Stehr: The shift from social forces such as labor or property which were constitutive of industrial society and its social relations, to science and technology or, as Bell describes it, to theoretical knowledge, in the postindustrial society justifies a general reference to these societies as knowledge societies.
According to Dyer-Witheford (1999: 35), a key impetus for this was the recession of the mid-1970s, although Morris-Suzuki (1988) says that in the Japanese case, the economy had come under strain by the late 1960s. Stagnation in the growth of the developing global economy was attributed to the decline in productivity due to the saturation of mass markets, rising environmental and safety costs, and increased competition in the international marketplace (Watkins 1994). Jones (1995: 34) argues that the resulting high inflation, high unemployment, and slow economic growth were partly compounded by the world oil crisis and ‘partly side-effects of the transition to post-industrialism’.