Information Technology

Information Technologies and Social Transformation

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Information technologies are perhaps the most aggressive technologies of the current age, generating progress, change, and turbulence in many branches of industry and in the lives of organizations and individuals. Microelectronic systems are shrinking in size and cost, growing in performance, expanding their range to the world level, and crossing cultural boundaries. As societies attain higher orders of information handling, existing social institutions are faced with the dual challenge of directing and accommodating social change driven by technology. With this in mind the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) held the second of its Symposia on Technology and Social Priorities, in conjunction with its 1984 Annual Meeting, titled Information Technologies and Social Transformation. The symposium, held on October 4, 1984, brought scholars of technology and society together with technologists, social scientists, and representatives from the industrial, legal, and public sectors to discuss the interaction of information technology with social institutions. The topics addressed included a review of recent developments and likely futures in information technology, a comparison of information technology to historical developments in other technologies, and discussion of the interaction of information technology with businesses, homes, property rights in information, and various hierarchies of social organization. The six papers presented at the symposium, with comments by discussants asked to prepare remarks on the papers, make up this volume. It is, I think, an exceptionally

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: ., 1985

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1-184

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English

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0-309-53441-0

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Information Technologies and Social Transformation

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