The Global Course of the Information Revolution:
Political, Economic, and Social Consequences
Proceedings of an International Conference
Richard O. Hundley, Robert H. Anderson, Tora K. Bikson, James
A. Dewar,
Jerrold Green, Martin Libicki, and C. Richard Neu
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Contents
Preface
Figures
Tables
Summary
Acknowledgements
Section
1. Introduction
PART I. SOME INITIAL CONSIDERATIONS
Section
2. Social and Organizational Consequences of the Information Revolution
Section
3. The Technology Underpinnings for the Information Revolution
PART II. VARIOUS DIMENSIONS OF THE INFORMATION
REVOLUTION
Section
4. The Political/Governmental Dimension of the Information Revolution
Section
5. The Business/Financial Dimension of the Information Revolution
Section
6. The Social/Cultural Dimension of the Information Revolution
PART III. HOW THE INFORMATION REVOLUTION MAY
PLAY OUT IN
VARIOUS REGIONS OF THE WORLD
Section
7. Three National/Regional Shapshots
Section
8. North, Central, and South America
Section
9. Europe
Section
10. The Asia Pacific Region
Section
11. Middle East, Africa, and South Asia
Part IV. CONCLUDING REMARKS
Section
12. Major Conference Themes: An Integration and Summary
Section
13. What Comes Next
APPENDICES
Appendix
A. Conference Participants
Appendix
B. Conference Agenda
Bibliography
The Global Course of the Information Revolution:
Political, Economic, and Social Consequences
Proceedings of an International Conference, Richard O. Hundley,
Robert H. Anderson, Tora K. Bikson, James A. Dewar, Jerrold Green,
Martin Libicki, and C. Richard Neu, CF-154-NIC, 2000, (121 pp., $9.00, ISBN: 0-8330-2850-2). The
study was prepared for the National Intelligence Council under the auspices of
RAND's National Defense Research Institute.
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