A great deal has been written about how information technologies represent a new industrial revolution, and many of the changes of that revolution have reached into virtually every corner of our lives ...

One of the supposed advantages of journalism's Internet age is that the Web provides a breadth and variety of news that is unparalleled in human history. Twenty years ago, the local newspaper dropped ...

Almost three decades ago, a coterie of defense wonks proclaimed that the information revolution would transform military power. They were right. But three decades later, it is time for the American ...

When ancient scribes invented the world”s first systems of writing by cutting symbols into stone and clay, they unleashed an anxiety the Facebook generation can relate to: worry about how the new ...

Governments and large states still have more resources than information-empowered private actors, but the stage on which they play is more crowded The second anniversary of the “Arab Spring” in Egypt ...

The claim that an information revolution is underway is scrutinized in this paper. Particular attention is given to the notions that new information technology will radically increase human choice and ...

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