published fourteen reports on various aspects of economic development and high-technology and has conducted an extensive evaluation of technical education at the state's public universities. The board was defunded in July 1986, and its functions transferred to other st~te agencies. participate in an Instructional Televison Network. • The Learn Alaska Network is a satellite communications system linking public schools. and university programs throughout Alaska. Telephone "audio conferences" can include up to·: · 80 sites, and over 240 communities can • A consortium of federal, state and local agencies in Alaska hosted The Northern Information Networking Conference, a conference exploring the applications of new technologies to natural resource projects and the possibilities for coordinating data-gathering ac ti vi ties throughout the state. • The SNOTEL network includes 550 automated sensors planted in the region's most important 3. The postindustrial society: a comparative scheme MODES Production Economic sector Transforming resource Strategic resource Technology Skill base Methodology Time perspective Design Axial principle PREINDUSTRIAL Extractive Primary Agriculture Mining Fishing Timber Oil and Gas Natural power (wind, water,draft animal, human muscles) Raw materials Craft Artisan, farmer, manual worker INDUSTRIAL Fabrication Secondary Goods producing Durables Nondurables Heavy construction Created energy (electricity, oil, gas, coal, nuclear power) Financial capital Machine technology Engineer, semiskilled worker Common sense, trial and Empiricism, error, experience experimentation Orientation to the past Ad hoc adaptiveness, experimentation Game against nature Game against fabricated nature Traditionalism Economic growth POSTINDUSTRIAL Processing and recycling Tertiary Transportation Utilities Quaternary Trade Finance Insurance Real estate Qui nary Health Research Recreation Education Government Information (computer, data transmission systems) Knowledge Intellectual technology Scientist, technical and professional occupations Abstract theory: models, simulations, decision theory, systems analysis Future orientation: forecasting and planning Game between persons Codification of theoretical knowledge Reprinted by permission of the Harvard Business Review. An exhibit from "Communications Technology-For Better or For Worse," by Daniel Bell (May/June 1979. Copyright 1979 by the president and fellows of Harvard College, all rights reserved. Fall/Winter 1986 RAIN Page 7
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