so-called electronic highway. Whole industries will be destroyed and new ones born. Productivity will leap and competitive advantage shift in the direction of small business. Thousands of jobs will become obsolete and disappear‚ and thousands of others will be created. The electronic frontier‚ like the frontiers that preceded it‚ is at once a realm of boundless opportunity and a harsh‚ brutal place.1 1Thomas Stewart‚ "Boom Time on the New Frontier‚" Fortune Special Issue‚ Making High Tech Work for
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I. Introduction Brave New World‚ written by Aldous Huxley in 1931‚ shows a fictional dystopian society located in London that greatly relies on technology and rejects today’s values such as love‚ family and emotion in order to achieve maximum societal stability and gain a false sense of happiness. The novel grasps concepts of futurology‚ which bolster the idea of the book satirizing modern society and showing what it could become. In the not so distant future‚ the novel predicts that humans will
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Case Study 1. How do information technologies contribute to the business success of the companies depicted in the case? Provide an example from each company explaining how the technology implemented let to improved performance. Information technologies are imperative to businesses and organizations that want to be successful. In this case‚ there were three companies that demonstrated how information technologies helped their business. The first company was eCourier. eCourier delivers packages
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PR Cluster Final Project—Integrated Public Relations Plan 1. Integrated Public Relations Plan—Project Headings * Product or Service * Tel-Net provides cable and internet services along with premium movie channels‚ and pay preview options. 2. Situation Description * IT was able to identify the problem after thousands of customer complaints. The problem was a minor tear in the main output line. * The disruption was estimated to have impacted over 7‚000 customers
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239 ETHICS OF INFORMATION COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY (ICT) Paper prepared by Tengku Mohd T. Sembok‚ Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia for the Regional Meeting on Ethics of Science and Technology 5-7 November 2003‚ Bangkok UNESCO Regional Unit for Social & Human Sciences in Asia and the Pacific (RUSHSAP) 241 ETHICS OF INFORMATION COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY (ICT) 1. INTRODUCTION Globalization and digital convergence in the emerging knowledge society has raised complex ethical‚ legal and
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The New Adult Learner Integration with Technology "Modem" is thus a very temporary state. My own assessment is that the half-life of current practices is about a decade. Malcolm Knowles‚ 1980
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WORLD TOURISM 1 “NEW ZEALAND” GENERAL INFORMATION Capital: Wellington Currency: New Zealand Dollar (NZ$) Famous Landmark: Flag Carrier: Major Airport: Auckland Airport Motto: none‚ formerly Onward National Anthem: God Defend New Zealand and God Save the Queen GMT: +13:00 Nicknames: God Zone‚ The Long White Cloud. Etymology Aotearoa (often translated as "land of the long white cloud") is the current Māori name for New Zealand‚ and is also used in New Zealand English. It is
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FOREWORD This revised policy underlines the desired need for appropriate cutting-edge technologies that will propel the country through and beyond the 21st century. This vision policy is therefore designed to underpin the nation’s socio-economic progress and development. It emphasizes the need for a coherent‚ systematic and comprehensive approach to the determination of technological programmes and their implementation taking into account domestic productions in agriculture and rural development
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2000 Information Technology in the Health Care Industry: A Primer Peter B. Southard‚ Soongoo Hong‚ Keng Siau Department of Management College of Business Administration University of Nebraska-Lincoln Lincoln‚ NE 68588-0491 USA E-mail: psouthar@unlserve.unl.edu‚ shong@tamiu.edu‚ ksiau1@unl.edu Abstract The paper discusses current and future applications of information technology within the healthcare industry. It presents some broad strategies for approaching information technology investments
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Entertainment Essay Entertainment is a powerful tool that can be both detrimental and beneficial to society; it can corrupt the human mind as well as the body‚ but under the correct circumstances it can bring out the best in individuals‚ allowing society to flourish. The fact of the matter however‚ is that the impact which any medium of entertainment – whether it be a radio broadcast dealing with politics or a video game about rainbow unicorns – has on a person is up to interpretation‚ I can go
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