ISBN:
9780309534413
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (184 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Information technologies and social transformation
DDC:
303.4/834
Keywords:
Electronic data processing -- Social aspects -- Congresses
;
Computers and civilization
;
Electronic books ; local
;
Computers and civilization
;
Electronic data processing ; Social aspects ; Congresses
;
Electronic books
;
Konferenzschrift 1984
;
Datenverarbeitung
;
Gesellschaft
;
Informationstechnik
;
Sozialer Wandel
;
Informationstechnik
;
Sozialer Wandel
Abstract:
Information Technologies and Social Transformation -- Copyright -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- The Evolution of Information Technologies -- THE INTERACTION OF TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY -- INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES AND THEIR LIMITS -- Integrated Circuits -- Computing Technology -- Software -- Photonics -- TECHNOLOGIES LIKELY TO EMERGE -- Potential Breakthroughs in Silicon Circuits -- Integrated Optics -- New Computing and Software Architectures -- User-Friendly Interfaces and Computer Speech -- Data Networks -- Integrated Circuits Based on Compound Materials -- Laser Materials Systems and Yields -- TECHNOLOGY SELECTION AND THE PACE OF INNOVATION -- Marketplace Economics -- R&D Economics -- R&D Prowess -- Regulation -- Technical Standards -- The Embedded Technology Base -- THE INFORMATION AGE -- Computers Everywhere -- Overcoming Geography -- New Services -- Universal Information Service -- Video Data Bases -- Expert Systems -- Engineering Perspective -- CONCLUSION -- COMMENTS -- The Information Age: Evolution or Revolution? -- THE CLASSICAL INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION -- A CURRENT TECHNOLOGICAL REVOLUTION? -- A CURRENT SOCIETAL REVOLUTION? -- TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURAL LAG -- EVOLUTION AND REVOLUTION -- NOTES -- COMMENTS -- The Twilight of Hierarchy Speculations on the Global Information Society -- THE INFORMATIZATION OF SOCIETY -- A DOMINANT RESOURCE, A DIFFERENT RESOURCE -- THE EROSION OF HIERARCHIES -- POWER BASED ON CONTROL: POWER AND PARTICIPATION -- INFLUENCE BASED ON SECRECY: DILEMMAS OF OPENNESS -- CLASS BASED ON OWNERSHIP: THE OBSOLESCENCE OF OWNERSHIP -- PRIVILEGE BASED ON EARLY ACCESS: EQUALITY OF ACCESS AND FAIRNESS -- POLITICS BASED ON GEOGRAPHY: THE PASSING OF REMOTENESS -- SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS -- NOTES -- COMMENTS -- Property Rights in Information -- INTRODUCTION -- Definitions of Property -- History of Information Protection.
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