Masters of the wired world : cyberspace speaks out /
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| Imprint: | London : Financial Times/Pitman, 1999. |
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| Description: | xii, 419 p. : ill., ports. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3906677 |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- About the Editor
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Visions of the Wired World
- Introduction: Political promise to the test
- Putting people first in the Information Age
- The global on-line economy: private and public sector co-operation in policy development
- Shocks, waves and power in the Digital Age
- Technology and humanity -- the shape of what's to come
- 2. The Global Information Infrastructure
- Introduction: Gatekeepers' paradise
- The twilight of telecommunications: towards the Global Internet Infrastructure
- Regulation: pathways in the Wired World
- Convergence, value and change
- The global grid of chaos
- 3. The Market
- Introduction: Big through small gets beautiful
- Building success in a global market
- Ramping up for the Net economy
- The opportunity and the challenge to sustain rapid Internet growth
- Competition rules OK
- 4. Content
- Introduction: Have bandwidth, need content
- The BBC in a digital world
- Filling up the pipelines
- Forms and functions of digital content in education
- From Bibles to new Buyables: traditional publishers and the digital challenge
- Copyright in a Digital Age
- 5. Technology
- Introduction: Here today, gone tomorrow
- Lasting ideas within turbulent technology
- Digital dilemmas for broadcasters
- The future of the Internet and the Internet of the future
- The quest for killer applications
- 6. Electronic Commerce
- Introduction: From money to information transactions
- Global electronic commerce -- realizing the potential
- The analogue analogy: the key to electronic commerce
- Security and privacy laws
- Politics and policy-making in the electronic marketplace
- 7. The Networked Economy
- Introduction: The changing world of asset trading
- The economics of cyberspace
- Electronic commerce: taxing times
- Beyond competition in a Wired World: technology, human nature and business in the 2000s
- Intellectual property and the Global Information Infrastructure
- 8. Wired Organizations
- Introduction: Screen society
- The digital government
- Building the cyber-corporation
- The rise of the mega-university
- Home PCs for everyone -- the Statoil IT Step
- 9. Public Services
- Introduction: Citizen care in a Wired World
- Towards an information- and knowledge-based society
- Lifelong learning: the renaissance of education
- Free Market Fusion: public/private collaborative relationships
- 10. People
- Introduction: Readers' Indigest
- Being digital in the Wired World
- The age of uncertainty versus the age of greatness
- Challenging the digital divide - the gap between the information rich and the information poor
- Afterword
- Index