The ignorance-based society is the other side of the coin of the “knowledge-based society” and raises vitally important questions that demand answers: what dangers lurk behind the promises of the “knowledge-based society”? What costs or “collateral damage” go with it? Is the outcome knowledge and nothing but knowledge? What limits are involved and need to be taken into account? Is it out of our control? How can ordinary people “take charge” of the “knowledge-based society”? Will hesitating to “take charge” in this way make us fall into an ignorance-based society? What dangers and challenges go hand in hand with current hopes for civilisation?