05872nam 2200649Ia 450 991082910990332120240416235340.01-280-22226-397866102222610-309-53441-00-585-14446-X(CKB)110986584750684(OCoLC)44962012(CaPaEBR)ebrary10060378(SSID)ssj0000179161(PQKBManifestationID)11183094(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000179161(PQKBWorkID)10230529(PQKB)10251168(MiAaPQ)EBC3376811(Au-PeEL)EBL3376811(CaPaEBR)ebr10060378(CaONFJC)MIL22226(OCoLC)923266270(EXLCZ)9911098658475068419850215d1985 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrInformation technologies and social transformation /National Academy of Engineering ; Bruce R. Guile, editor1st ed.Washington, D.C. National Academy Press19851 online resource (183 p.)Series on technology and social prioritiesPapers presented at a symposium held in conjunction with the 1984 annual meeting of the National Academy of Engineering.0-309-03529-5 Includes bibliographies and index.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&amp -- D Economics -- R&amp -- 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 -- THE RIGHT TO KNOW -- THE RIGHT TO COLLECT INFORMATION -- THE RIGHT TO ACQUIRE INFORMATION -- THE RIGHT TO WITHHOLD INFORMATION -- THE RIGHT TO CONTROL THE RELEASE OF INFORMATION -- THE RIGHT TO PROFIT FROM INFORMATION -- Computer Software-Apple v. Franklin -- Videotape Piracy-Sony Corp. v. Universal City Studios -- Insider Information-SEC v. Winans -- Other Cases -- THE RIGHT TO PROTECT INFORMATION -- Sunshine Laws and Freedom of Information Laws -- Strategic Information -- Export Control of Technical Data -- Transborder Television-Protection of Cultural Identity -- THE RIGHT TO DESTROY OR EXPUNGE INFORMATION -- THE RIGHT TO CORRECT OR ALTER INFORMATION -- Public Records -- Broadcasting -- Newspapers -- THE RIGHT TO DISSEMINATE INFORMATION -- SOME OBSERVATIONS ON PRACTICAL PRECEDENTS AND PHILOSOPHICAL PRINCIPLES -- CONCLUSIONS -- NOTES -- COMMENTS -- Information Technologies in the Home -- INTRODUCTION -- WORKING AT HOME -- Telework -- Barriers to Computer-Based Telework -- Government Policies Affecting Work at Home -- DOING CHORES AT HOME -- Controlling Appliances -- Home Networks -- Home Information and Transaction Services -- LEARNING AT HOME -- RELAXING AT HOME -- Technical Improvements in Television -- New Technologies' Challenge to Television -- THE IMPACT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES ON HOME ACTIVITIES -- REFERENCES -- COMMENTS -- Computers and Business -- SOME CHARACTERISTICS OF EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES -- INTERSECTION: TRAINING, COMPUTERS, PEOPLE -- Simulation as an Aid to Training -- Consequences -- INTERSECTION: MANUFACTURING, AUTOMATION, PEOPLE -- Factory Automation and Robotics -- Consequences -- INTERSECTION: SELLING, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, STRUCTURE -- Retail Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) -- Consequences -- INTERSECTION: MANAGEMENT, COMPUTER, SELF-CONCEPT -- Modeling in Management Decision Making.Consequences -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- COMMENTS -- About the Authors.Series on technology and social priorities.Electronic data processingSocial aspectsCongressesComputers and civilizationElectronic data processingSocial aspectsComputers and civilization.303.4/834Guile Bruce R107497National Academy of Engineering.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910829109903321Information technologies and social transformation3946320UNINA