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Post-industrial systems of societiesIn this special issue we introduce some selected contributions presented at the seminar The post-industrial societies dealing with complexity: knowledge to manage the knowledge society organised by the European Union for Systemics (EUS) and held on September 20, 2013, in Charleroi, Belgium.Charleroi was a former industrial area for the production of iron, steel and glass, located in the centre of a coal basin.The decline of the coal industry in the 70 has left Charleroi in a bad economic shape: its unemployment and poverty rates were one of the highest in Europe during the 80 and 90.Since the early 2000, this ravaged area has opened itself to new horizons (health care, transportation and telecommunications) and reinvented itself.Therefore it represented a highly symbolic and inspiring metaphor for the topic of the seminar.The seminar in general, and the contributions published here ,considered the shift from the industrial society to the post-industrial societies based on knowledge as primary resource.However from the presentations and the discussion a new emergent understanding of the processes of such shift occurred, at different levels and in different context.We try to summarise saying that since the focus was on the knowledge to be created and used to manage the complexity of post-industrial, knowledge societies, the interest was rather on outlining such complexity.In doing so an interesting summarising emergent aspect emerged, that is, the double nature of post-industrial societies.One internal, when sources of complexity are, for instance:augmented reality through simulations and multidimensional, simultaneous, and coherent information; • data availability (so-called Big Data); • delocalisation and globalisation; • duplicability; • ergodic-like change or trade-off between time and space; • epiphenomena, i.e., secondary phenomenon occurring alongside or in parallel to the primary phenomenon; • high general networked interconnections; • high manipulability inventing and processing cognitive models; • high virtuality; • hyper connection; Acta Europeana Systemica n°3
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