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The first features Machlup's 1962 monograph The Production and Distribution of Knowledge in the United States. The second claims Japanese proven ance, citing articles in the broadcasting journal Hoso Asahi. Various equivocations and confusions are discussed, such as the tendency in both accounts to conflate the 'information society' with the concept of an 'information industry'. The second account quickly emerges as the stronger. However, it is argued (perhaps controversially) that ultimate credit for the invention of the 'information society' belongs not to the authors of the articles published in Hoso Asahi, but to that journal's editorial staff. 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