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Microelectronics and Society

For Better or for Worse

  • 1 Edición - 26 de febrero de 1982
  • Última edición
  • Editores: G. Friedrichs, A. Schaff
  • Idioma: Inglés

Through automation and miniaturisation, microelectronics has vast potential for thrusting society into a new phase. It promises to revolutionise the information handling aspects of… Leer más

Descripción

Through automation and miniaturisation, microelectronics has vast potential for thrusting society into a new phase. It promises to revolutionise the information handling aspects of our lives. But to gain maximum benefit from this breakthrough, microelectronics must be harnessed to society's needs. To help this process a multidisciplinary group of authors has prepared a report to the Club of Rome on the likely impact of microelectronics on our futures

De interès para

For general readers interested in societal change and particularly managers, trade unionists, social scientists and information technologists

Índice

(partial) Introduction: a new industrial revolution or just another technology?, A. King

The technology, T.R. Ide

The technology applied, R. Curnow & S. Curran

The impact on the enterprise, B. Lamborghini

The worker and the workplace, J. Evans

Microelectronics and macroeconomics, G. Friedrichs

A Third World perspective, J.F. Rada

Microelectronics in war, F. Barnaby

Information technology and society, K. Lenk

Microelectronics and world interdependence, A. King

Occupation versus work, A. Schaff

Detalles del producto

  • Edición: 1
  • Última edición
  • Publicado: 26 de febrero de 1982
  • Idioma: Inglés

Sobre los editores

GF

G. Friedrichs

Afiliaciones y experiencia
German Metalworkers Union, Frankfurt, FRG

AS

A. Schaff

Afiliaciones y experiencia
European Coordination Centre for Research and Documentation in Social Sciences, Vienna, Austria

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