The Impact of the Information Revolution
What has been the impact of the information revolution and how should we respond? Let's begin by considering how fast our world shifted to acomputer-based society. At the end of World War n the first electronic digitalcomputer ENIAC weighed thirty tons had 18000 vacuum tubes and occupied a space as large as a boxcar. Less than forty years later many hand-held calculators had comparable computing power for a few dollars. Today most people