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430 Pekka HimanenWithout renewing the basis for trust in the public systems, the informationaleconomy risks falling into a cycle of fear which blocks innovation:people who fear do not innovate or want to try new things as consumers. Whenour thinking is freed from an over-emphasis of money, we can both supportand benefit from the opportunities afforded in the public sector of mobilizingin the hacker manner (see Feldman et al., 2004).The information age, as all new societal systems, provides both benefitsand challenges. A sufficiently open culture of innovation carries a great dealof economic and human promise: a culture of people fulfilling themselveswith creative joy both in their work and leisure lives, but this requires that wedo not build our societies in a way that is too centered on money.REFERENCESAbbate, Janet (1999) Inventing the Internet. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.Alahuhta, Matti and Himanen, Pekka (forthcoming) Managing the Creative WorkCulture.Berners-Lee, Tim (1999) Weaving the Web: The Original Design and the UltimateDestiny of the World Wide Web by its Inventor. New York: HarperCollins.Brynjolfsson, Erik and Hitt, Lorin M. (2000) “Computing Productivity: Firm-levelEvidence,” Cambridge, MA: MIT–Sloan School Center for E-business, workingpaper.Carnoy, Martin (2000) Sustaining the New Economy: Work, Family, and Community inthe Information Age. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.Castells, Manuel (1996) The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture, vol. 1:The Rise of the Network Society. Oxford: Blackwell.—— (1997) The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture, vol. 2: The Power ofIdentity. Oxford: Blackwell.—— (1998) The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture, vol. 3: End ofMillennium. Oxford: Blackwell.—— (2000a) The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture, vol. 1: The Rise ofthe Network Society, 2nd edn. Oxford: Blackwell.—— (2000b) The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture, vol. 3: End ofMillennium, 2nd ed. Oxford: Blackwell.—— (2001) The Internet Galaxy: Reflections on the Internet, Business, and Society.Oxford: Oxford University Press.—— (2004) The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture, vol. 2: The Power ofIdentity, 2nd edn. Oxford: Blackwell.—— and Himanen, Pekka (2002) The Information Society and the Welfare State: TheFinnish Model. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Feldman, Jerome, Himanen, Pekka, and Weber, Steven (2004) “The Social Web,”Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Center for Information Society.Florida, Richard (2002) The Rise of the Creative Class. New York: Basic Books.Giddens, Anthony (1992) “Introduction,” in Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and theSpirit of Capitalism, trans. Talcott Parsons (1930). London: Routledge, 1992.Held, David, McGrew, Anthony, Goldblatt, David, and Perraton, Jonathan (1999)