Electronic Communication Technology And Impacts

Introduction Part 1: Current and Future States of Electronic Communications Technology 1. Perspective on Trends in Electronic Communication 2. A Quadrillion Geophysical Data Bits Per Year 3. View data, Prestel, Teletext: Home TV and Scitel Science Magazine Part 2: Operational Trials of Electronic Information Exchange System (EIES) 4. An Overview of the Nature, Purpose and Initial Findings 5. Computer Conference on General Systems Theory: One Year's Experience 6. Futures Research Group Experience with Computerized Conferencing 7. EIES for a Community Involved in R&D of Devices for the Disabled 8. A Semi-Visible College: Structural Effects on a Social Networks Group 9. Use of Computer Conferencing to Validate and Update NLM's Hepatitis Data Base 10. JEDEC/EIES Computer Conferencing for Standardization Activities 11. LegiTech/EIES: Information Exchange Among State Legislative Researchers 12. The Designer's View Part 3. Social Impacts and Policy Issues of Electronic Communications 13. Problems of Accountability in Large Federal Databanks 14. Social Change Through Electronic Communications 15. Policy Options for the Future: Congress, the FCC and the President