Authors:Satoshi Nishijima, Iwata, Newton,
Publisher: American Society for Testing & Materials
Keywords: databases, computerization, material, networking, amp
Number of Pages: 315
Published: 1998-02
List price: $99.00
ISBN-10: 0803124198
ISBN-13: 9780803124196

Author: Rob Kling
Publisher: Morgan Kaufma
Keywords: social, choices, conflicts, value, controversy, second, computerization
Number of Pages: 961
Published: 1996-03-07
List price: $84.95
ISBN-10: 0124150403
ISBN-13: 9780124150409

How computers will change the world, both technologically and socially, has been the subject of many debates. This collection of essays doesn’t try to predict the changes; instead, it clarifies the areas of controversy and brings up a range of possible futures rather than one predicted future. Rob Kling and his contributors ask their thought-provoking questions in eight sections. The first provides an overview of the controversies and offers a variety of analogies for the computerization of society. The second section covers the hopes of technological utopianism, while the third examines