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Will the flow of information across national borders allowed by advancing information technologies~hange the character of international relations between industrialized nations? In the abstract, questions concerning the rate and direction of mutual adaptation between technology and society are of importance to the scholars of technological evolution.
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Kranzberg's analysis leads him to conclude that we are indeed facing a social revolution and that the revolution is driven not only by changing information technologies but by interaction between social institutions and a wide range of technological innovations. Information technologies will evolve in, and contribute to, a social revolution brought on by rapid changes in energy, materials, and industrial management technology and made up of changing social nods, economic conditions, and attitudes toward science and technology.
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He examines hierarchies of power based on control, of influence based on secrecy, of class based on ownership, of privilege based on early access, and of politics based on geography. He sees dramatic potential for change in a wide range of human endeavor as a result of emerging information technologies.
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Additionally, new services brought to the home through emerging infonnation technologies, especially entertainment services, will compete with television, radio, neighborhood softball games, and casual family conversation for a relatively scarce minute of available leisure time. Gordon, in his paper on information technologies in business, selects four examples of the way that information technologies may affect business and develops each example by explaining a likely path for development and then hypothesizing about the consequences.
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Direct mail, made possible by the potentials of inexpensive computing, has already revolutionized constituency contact and fund raising in industry associations, professional societies, charitable organizations, and political coalitions. How will continuing development of information technologies affect the activities of these organizations in the l990s?
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The list goes on. Nonetheless, the six papers in this volume, with the comments offered by the discussant for each paper, provide an introduction—and a few steps beyond to the manner in which information technologies are forcing, and being shaped by, transformations in a range of social institutions.
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