Informatic Technologies and Information Transfer,
Abstract
The application of informatic technologies has had a major impact on information transfer and the process seems likely to continue in the foreseeable future. The impact, however, is not simply a matter of a straightforward application of a technological innovation to solve known problems at an acceptable cost, but appears to involve a complexity of factors including cross-fertilisation between two previously independent areas of development (computers and telecommunications), the explosive growth of general electronic data processing in the industralised countries, market forces, and user reaction. An historical perspective may therefore help to establish the dynamics of these continuing interactions between developments in informatics and the concomitant rapidly occurring changes in information transfer possibilities and methods.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Nov 01, 1982
- Accession Number
- ADP001486
Entities
People
- John R. U. Page
Organizations
- International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis