The Information Revolution: Current and Future Consequences (Hardcover)

Foreword PART I: IMPLICATIONS FOR MODERN MANAGEMENT Measuring Information Age Business, Gary S. Tjaden Knowledge Capital: Management Principles for Every Organization's Five Most Valuable Assets, William H. Read Mass Customization in the Age of Information: The Case for Open Engineering Systems, Timothy W. Simpson, Uwe Lautenschlager, and Farrokh Mistree PART II: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE WORKPLACE Workplace Changes: Psychological Perspective, C. Michael York Office Productivity: The Impact of Staffing, Intellectual Specialization, and Technology, Peter G. Sassone The Impact of Groupware: Work Process Automation and Organiztional Learning, William M. Riggs, W. Hagood Bellinger, and David B. Krieger PART III: IMPLICATIONS FOR ACADEME Universities and Information Technologies for Instructional Programs: Issues and Potential Impacts, Gary W. Poehlein Revolutionary Change in the Electronic Publication of Science, Scott Cunningham PART IV: IMPLICATIONS FOR POLITICAL AFFAIRS Citzenship on the Net: The Case of Environmentalism, Ann Bostrom and Gordon Kingsley The Impact of Advanced Information and Communication Technologies on International Actors and the International System, Daniel S. Papp Information Warfare: a Consequence of the Information Revolution, Myron L. Cramer PART V: IMPLICATIONS FOR "INFORMATION SOCIETIES" The Impact of Information Technology on the Relationship Between the Public and the Private Realms, Micha Bandini Myths of Information: The Cultural Impact of New Information Technologies, Anne Balsamo Less Labor, Longer Lives, Time to Share, Alan L. Porter and Ann Bostrom Technology, Jobs and Society: The New Challenge of Change, Robert M. White and Richard H. White PART VI: PREDICTIONS Forecasts for the future Members of the Georgia Institute of Technology Faculty Program on the Information Revolution: Current and Future Consequences Author Index Subject Index