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Where is the Information Society heading?
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Where is the Information Society heading? Like the Industrial Revolution two centuries ago, the Information Revolution so far (that is, since the first computers in the mid-1940s) has only transformed processes that were here all along. In fact, the real impact of the Information Revolution has not been in the form of "information" at all. Almost none of the effects of information envisaged forty years ago have actually happened. For instance, there has been practically no change in the way major decisions are made in business or government. But the Information Revolution has routinised traditional processes in an untold number of areas. As a direct result from this, society has inevitably changed to meet the demands of the new technologies, although to some extent it has been the new technologies having to change to catch up with our evolving society. Take for example the tuning of a regular piano. New...
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