The Information Revolution
Current and Future Consequences
Published on 13. March 1998
Book
Hardback
296 pages
978-1-56750-348-7 (ISBN)
Description
This is a review of the current and future consequences of the information revolution. It draws on an international authorship, as well as members of the Georgia Faculty Program on the Information Revolution. Porter and Read look at the implications of the revolution in five areas of human activity: business and financial capital; the workplace and human capital; academia and publishing; politics, internationalism and citizenship; and the "information society", public and private. In a final section, predictions are offered as to how the information technology revolution will evolve in the future and how human society might continue to ride the IT wave and adapt in its wake.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
653 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-56750-348-7 (9781567503487)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
rter /f Alan d /f William /i H.
Content
Foreword PART I: IMPLICATIONS FOR MODERN MANAGEMENT Measuring Information Age Business, Gary S. Tjaden Knowledge Capital: Management Principles for Every Organization's Five Most Valuable Assets, William H. Read Mass Customization in the Age of Information: The Case for Open Engineering Systems, Timothy W. Simpson, Uwe Lautenschlager, and Farrokh Mistree PART II: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE WORKPLACE Workplace Changes: Psychological Perspective, C. Michael York Office Productivity: The Impact of Staffing, Intellectual Specialization, and Technology, Peter G. Sassone The Impact of Groupware: Work Process Automation and Organiztional Learning, William M. Riggs, W. Hagood Bellinger, and David B. Krieger PART III: IMPLICATIONS FOR ACADEME Universities and Information Technologies for Instructional Programs: Issues and Potential Impacts, Gary W. Poehlein Revolutionary Change in the Electronic Publication of Science, Scott Cunningham PART IV: IMPLICATIONS FOR POLITICAL AFFAIRS Citzenship on the Net: The Case of Environmentalism, Ann Bostrom and Gordon Kingsley The Impact of Advanced Information and Communication Technologies on International Actors and the International System, Daniel S. Papp Information Warfare: a Consequence of the Information Revolution, Myron L. Cramer PART V: IMPLICATIONS FOR "INFORMATION SOCIETIES" The Impact of Information Technology on the Relationship Between the Public and the Private Realms, Micha Bandini Myths of Information: The Cultural Impact of New Information Technologies, Anne Balsamo Less Labor, Longer Lives, Time to Share, Alan L. Porter and Ann Bostrom Technology, Jobs and Society: The New Challenge of Change, Robert M. White and Richard H. White PART VI: PREDICTIONS Forecasts for the future Members of the Georgia Institute of Technology Faculty Program on the Information Revolution: Current and Future Consequences Author Index Subject Index