LEADER 06609nam 2200733Ia 450 001 9910970122603321 005 20251116140404.0 010 $a9786610222261 010 $a9781280222269 010 $a1280222263 010 $a9780309534413 010 $a0309534410 010 $a9780585144467 010 $a058514446X 035 $a(CKB)110986584750684 035 $a(OCoLC)44962012 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10060378 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000179161 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11183094 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000179161 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10230529 035 $a(PQKB)10251168 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3376811 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3376811 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10060378 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL22226 035 $a(OCoLC)923266270 035 $a(Perlego)4735645 035 $a(BIP)804064 035 $a(EXLCZ)99110986584750684 100 $a19850215d1985 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aInformation technologies and social transformation /$fNational Academy of Engineering ; Bruce R. Guile, editor 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aWashington, D.C. $cNational Academy Press$d1985 215 $a1 online resource (183 p.) 225 1 $aSeries on technology and social priorities 300 $aPapers presented at a symposium held in conjunction with the 1984 annual meeting of the National Academy of Engineering. 311 08$a9780309035293 311 08$a0309035295 320 $aIncludes bibliographies and index. 327 $aInformation 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. 327 $aHistory 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. 327 $aConsequences -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- COMMENTS -- About the Authors. 330 $aThis collection of papers by scholars of technology and society, based on a National Academy of Engineering symposium, explores the process of mutual adjustment between information technologies and social institutions. 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