Authors:
Hardcover, 404 pages
Publisher: Ablex Publishing
Publication Date: 2000-04-13


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    Culture and Technology in the New Europe presents the insights of an international group of academic researchers and media practitioners who examine the impact of technology on East Central Europe, South-Eastern Europe, the Newly Independent States and the Russian Federation. Drawing from the expertise of authors from and working in the region, the book addresses concerns that the New Europe faces at the eve of the Third Millennium and a decade after the fall of communist rule. Such concerns include access to information and communication technology and the culturally-specific discourses articulated through media and technology. While the book focuses on information and communication reforms, and the development of a participatory democracy are examined. The book is distinguished by diverse studies ranging from the problems of "Cyber Hate" from and about the New Europe, to online activism in war-torn Kosovo, Bosnia, Croatia and Yugoslavia, to how digital media art articulates new cultural and creative freedoms once silenced by the Soviet regime. Finally, the book looks to the future of media, technology and communication in the New Europe, particularly the gaps between post-socialist nations and those more technologically advantaged, and how these gaps can be narrowed or eradicated in the Third Millennium....

Authors: Michael L. Dertouzos.
Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: HarperOne
Publication Date: 1997-03-26
Edition: 1

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    ""What Will Be" is an engaging and visionary guide to the future, filled with insights.... Whoever takes part in the coming Information Revolution -- and that' s just about all of us -- needs to know What Will Be." --Bill Gates ""What Will Be" is a rich, detailed look at the future texture of our daily lives." --Esther Dyson Tech oracle Michael Dertouzos -- head of the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science and author of the bestselling "Made in America" -- offers a learned, accessible and fascinatingly detailed preview of new information technology and the ways it will remake our society, culture, economy and private lives in the next century. Speaking to every reader affected by technological change and written by a key architect of the very revolution it describes, "What Will Be" is the first detailed roadmap to the world of the technological future....

    Many have predicted what emerging technology will mean for society. Michael Dertouzos, an Internet pioneer and Head of MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science, has been among the few who've been pretty much right so far. Now he reaches into the coming century to paint a compelling, rationally developed picture of what's ahead. Dertouzos' fluid freedom from the pollyanna-ism or paranoia that afflict so many of his contemporaries brings to his visions the ring of both conviction and plausibility--and excitement as well. His crystal explanations and fascinating examples are irresistible. The result is a book as enjoyable as it is important....

Authors: Savvas Katsikides. Mike Campbell.
Hardcover, 336 pages
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Publication Date: 1994-02


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    This text brings together research devoted to the relationship between the new developments of technological systems and the social changes with which they are associated. Authors from all parts of Europe have contributed to this volume, discussing: the prospects of social research; developments concerning specific professions linked to technical changes; technological standards compared with social structures, cultural identity and economic performance; female and male conceptions of technology; labour relations; developments in the labour market; structures and trends in "technological societies"; and strategies in technology transfer....

Authors: Leslie Ann Brownrigg.
Unknown Binding, pages
Publisher: The Cooperative
Publication Date: 1979

Authors: Frances Cairncross.
Hardcover, 302 pages
Publisher: Harvard Business School Press
Publication Date: 1997-10


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    One of the World's Most Insightful Journalists writes eloquently and convincingly about the ways the communications revolution will tilt the balance between large and small, rich and poor, as it transforms many business and government decisions. This "death of distance" will be the single most important economic force shaping society over the next half century....

    From the advent of electronic communications, there's been talk about how the world has been shrinking. Frances Cairncross, senior editor for the Economist, makes her case from an economical standpoint: The growing ease and speed of communication is creating a world where the miles have little to do with our ability to work or interact together. Cairncross predicts that it won't be long before people organize globally on the basis of language and three basic time shifts--one for the Americas, one for Europe, and one for East Asia and Australia. Much work that can be done on a computer can be done from anywhere. Workers can code software in one part of the world and pass it to a company hundreds of miles away that will assemble the code for marketing. And with workers able to earn a living from anywhere, countries may find themselves competing for citizens as people relocate for reasons ranging from lower taxes to nicer weather. Cairncross discusses about 30 major changes likely to result from these trends, including greater self-policing of businesses, an unavoidable loss of personal privacy, and a diminishing need for countries to want emigration....

Authors: John Alexandra.
Paperback, pages
Publisher: Rose Harmony Pubns
Publication Date: 1996-06

Authors: Robert Boguslaw.
Paperback, pages
Publisher: Irvington Pub
Publication Date: 1980-06
Edition: Rev Sub

Authors:
Hardcover, 422 pages
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Publication Date: 1996-08


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    A comparative history of American and German social and cultural developments following the American Civil War, the German Reconstruction after WWII, and the German Reunification at the end of the Cold War, and focusing on issues such as race, class, gender, war criminals, denazification, national i...

Authors: Jim Davis.
Paperback, 316 pages
Publisher: Verso
Publication Date: 1998-01-01


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    Multidisciplinary analyses of the effects of technology on work and the economy. A robot can build a car. But a robot cannot buy a car ... The explosion in the development of computer- and robotic-based manufacturing is seeing the rapid expansion of laborless production systems. Such systems create enormous instability, both for the overall economy where money previously paid in wages is now invested in labor-saving technology and therefore cannot be spent on goods, and for workers whose jobs are being deskilled or are simply disappearing. Bringing together contributions from workers employed in the new electronics and information industries with work from theorists in economics, politics and science, Cutting Edge provides an up-to-the-minute analysis of the complex relations between technology and work. Individual essays look at topics including the cyclical nature of a technologically driven economy, the privatization of knowledge that new information industries demand, and the strategies that trade unionists and governments might deploy to protect jobs and living standards.

Contributors: Abdul Alkalimat, George Caffentzis, Guglielmo Carchedi, Jim Davis, Thomas A. Hirschl, Martin Kenney, Jonathan King, Sally Lerner, Tessa Morris-Suzuki, Gerardo Otero, Nelson Peery, Ramin Ramtin, Dan Schiller, Steffanie Scott, Michael Stack and Nick Witheford....

Authors: Corey Leisseig.
Hardcover, 150 pages
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Date: 2001-10-19
Edition: 1

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    The automobile presented opportunities for early twentieth century Mississippians to change their patterns of work and leisure, and to alter the foundations of their society, family, church and school. This book investigates the depth of those changes brought about by the automobile....