The Information Society: Evolving Landscapes

Section 1: Ethics.- The Ethics of Computing?.- Section 2: Roots, Legitimacy and Ideology.- Some Historical Remarks.- The Question of the Legitimacy of the Computer: An Epistemological Point of View.- Computerization Movements and the Mobilization of Support for Computing.- Section 3: Towards New Cultural Perspectives?.- The Cultural Scenery of Information Technology: An Introduction.- Information Technology in Daily Life: An Assessment of the Full Integration Hypothesis.- Towards a New Balance in Our Landscapes.- Society, Religions and Information Technology.- Style as Substance in Educational Computing.- Communication of Knowledge in an Information Society.- Section 4: Politics.- The Political Implications of Information Technology: Challenge To Power?.- Information Technology and Civil Liberties.- Computers and Democracy.- Seeking Security Through Technological Means.- Section 5: Economics.- Information in the Economy.- Information Technology, and the Global Economy.- Growth, Productivity and Innovation: Theories and Facts.- Computers and Organizations.- Human Resources and the Working World.- Comments on "Human Resources and the Working World".- Women Employment and Information Technology: A View from the United Kingdom.- Women Employment and Information Technology: A View from the Netherlands.- Computers and Developing Countries.- Section 6: Artificial Intelligence, Human Mind and Image of Reality.- Recent Technical Developments: Attitudes and Paradigms.- Model, Representation and Reality.- The Distortion of Information.- Information and Human Mind.- Epilogue.- Appendices.- Contributors Addresses.- Author Index.