Revolutionaries and Captives in the Information Society

Trevor Haywood     bm33@uce.cityscape.co.uk     (Emeritus Professor of Human Information Systems, University of Central England)

Ariadne 1997
(ReLIS:doi:doiari:y:1997:i:10:p:10)

Abstract:

Every generation believes that it is at a seminal point on the time-line of technological progress. It is either the age of iron, the age of the train, the age of flight or, in our case, the information age. We can thus always say that we stand at an interesting moment in the development of technology. Nowhere does this 'interesting moment' look more intriguing than our current location on the map of rapidly evolving information technology, particularly networking technology.

Note: Trevor Haywood on the shackles that bind us to the information revolution. This article is adapted from the first Ameritech (UK) Lecture at Napier University in May 1997 and appears in both the Web and the print versions of Ariadne.
Month: Tuesday July 15th, 1997
Year: 1997

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