The World Wide Web exploded into public consciousness in 1995, a year which saw the coming of age of the Internet. People are communicating, working, shopping, learning, and entertaining themselves, as well as satisfying carnal desires and even finding God through the simple act of connecting their computers to the wide universe of cyberspace.
We are assured, at the same time, that this progress will have profound effects on work, culture, leisure--everything, including the ways in which we interact with each other. Yet just what these effects will be, how power will be distributed,...
The World Wide Web exploded into public consciousness in 1995, a year which saw the coming of age of the Internet. People are communicating, workin...
The World Wide Web exploded into public consciousness in 1995, a year which saw the coming of age of the Internet. People are communicating, working, shopping, learning, and entertaining themselves, as well as satisfying carnal desires and even finding God through the simple act of connecting their computers to the wide universe of cyberspace.
We are assured, at the same time, that this progress will have profound effects on work, culture, leisure--everything, including the ways in which we interact with each other. Yet just what these effects will be, how power will be distributed,...
The World Wide Web exploded into public consciousness in 1995, a year which saw the coming of age of the Internet. People are communicating, workin...
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60 -I 137.0 29 ERROR BARS tONE (1" 4 E a. a. Z30 137.0388 0 137.0377 20 0 to 0 '50 Fig.1. Successive recommended values of the fine-stru...
Science is continually confronted by new and difficult social and ethical problems. Some of these problems have arisen from the transformation of the academic science of the prewar period into the industrialized science of the present. Traditional theories of science are now widely recognized as obsolete. In Scientific Knowledge and Its Social Problems (originally published in 1971), Jerome R. Ravetz analyzes the work of science as the creation and investigation of problems. He demonstrates the role of choice and value judgment, and the inevitability of error, in scientific...
Science is continually confronted by new and difficult social and ethical problems. Some of these problems have arisen from the transformation of t...
