Grossmann, Wolf DieterHaasis, H.-D.Ranze, K.C.2019-09-162019-09-161998https://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/26528An information society, its people and its economy can only flourish through sustainability, but sustainability, if at all, is only possible with the means of an sustainability, but sustainability, if at all, is only possible with the means of an information society. Here the active influencing of the ongoing development towards an information society is advocated so that this society becomes socially and information society is advocated so that this society becomes socially and environmentally friendly. Many options exist to do this; some are elaborated here. Systems models depict that people are the crucial resource, the bottleneck, for this undertaking. Here a scheme is provided to understand which people are crucial during which period of the present development. The view is systems oriented and is based on an integrated understanding of living, economy, working, housing, and the environment in the information society. The approach has a theoretic foundation and additionally relies on extensive case studies.Text/Conference Paper