The Information Age/Notes


 * 1 Andy Covell, Digital Convergence: How the Merging of Computers, Communications, and Multimedia is Transforming Our Lives (Rhode Island: Aegis, 2000), 58.


 * 2 Robert W. Lucky, “In a Very Short Time: What is Coming Next in Telecommunications,” in Technology 2001: The Future of Computing and Communications, ed. Derek Leebaert (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1995), 339.


 * 3 Ibid., 342.


 * 4 Frances Cairncross, The Death of Distance: How the Communications Revolution Will Change Our Lives (London: Orion, 1997), xiii.


 * 5 Covell, Digital Convergence, 66.


 * 6 Ibid., 67.


 * 7 Ibid., 68.


 * 8 Ibid., 69.


 * 9 John Gage, “Decentering Society;” available from http://www.civmag.com/articles/C9910E03.html 10/31/2000; accessed 8 August 2002.


 * 10 Lawrence Lessig, The Future of Ideas:The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World (New York: Random House, 2001), 23.


 * 11 Christopher Coward, correspondence with author.


 * 12 Ed Lazowska, Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer Science, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington; cited in email of Chris Coward to the author.


 * 13 Richard Lipsey, Technological Shocks: Past, Present and Future; available from http://www.sfu.ca/~rlipsey/T&amp;G.PDF; accessed 28 August 2002.


 * 14 Tom Forrester and Perry Morrison, Computer Ethics: Cautionary Tales and Ethical Dilemmas in Computing (Oxford: Blackwell, 1990), 1.


 * 15 Lipsey, Technological Shocks, 11.


 * 16 John V. Pavlik, citing James Beniger, New Media Technology: Cultural and Commercial Perspectives, 2nd ed. (Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1998), 134.


 * 17 Anthony Giddens, “Runaway World: The Reith Lectures Revisited Lecture 1: 10 November 1999;” available from http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/events/reith_99/.


 * 18 Manuel Castells, The Rise of the Network Society. The Information Age: Economy, Society & Culture, vol. 1 (Oxford:Blackwell, 1996), 31.


 * 19 Debora L. Spar, Ruling the Waves: From the Compass to the Internet, a History of Business and Politics along the Technological Frontier (New York: Harcourt: 2001), 11.


 * 20 Ibid, 374.


 * 21 Castells, The Rise of the Network Society, 66.


 * 22 Ibid., 92.


 * 23 Ibid., 97-98.


 * 24 William D. Nordhaus, “Productivity Growth and the New Economy,” Working Paper 8096 National Bureau of Economic Research; available from http://www.nber.org/papers/8096; accessed 28 August 2002, 6-7.


 * 25 Castells, The Rise of the Network Society, 79.


 * 26 Robert Reich, The Future of Success (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001), 106.


 * 27 Ibid., 48.


 * 28 Peter Drucker, “Beyond the Information Revolution” in The Atlantic Online [home page online]; available from http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/99oct/9910drucker.htm; accessed 28 August 2002.


 * 29 Manuel Castells, The Internet Galaxy (Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 2001), 1-2.


 * 30 Cited in Tapscott, Ticoll and Lowy, Digital Capital: Harnessing the Power of Business Webs (London: Nicolas Brealey Publishing, 2000), 8.


 * 31 Ibid., 7-9.


 * 32 Doyle, J.J. and G.J. Persley, eds., Enabling the Safe Use of Biotechnology: Principles and Practices (Washington, D.C.: The World Bank, 1996).


 * 33 W. Brian Arthur, “Is The Information Revolution Dead?” Business 2.0 (March 2002); available from http://www.ebusinessforum.gr/content/downloads/IstheInformationRevolutionDead.pdf.


 * 34 Jeremy Rifkin, The End of Work: The Decline of the Global Labor Force and the Dawn of the Post-Market Era, (New York: JP Putnam, 1995), 223.


 * 35 Drucker, “Beyond the Information Revolution” in The Atlantic Online. 


 * 36 Carol Ann Meares et al., The Digital Workforce: Building Infotech Skills at the Speed of Innovation (US Department of Commerce, June 1999), 21.


 * 37 Reich, The Future of Success, 176.


 * 38 Ibid., 176-7.


 * 39 Gregory K. Ericksen, Net Entrepreneurs Only: 10 Entrepreneurs Tell The Stories of Their Success (New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, 2000), ix.


 * 40 The European Commission, “LifeLong Learning,” European Communities, 1995-2002; available from http://europa.eu.int/comm/education/life/what_islll_en.html; accessed 31 August 2002


 * 41 Distance Education Centre at Technical University of Gdansk, “The Internet: Its Psycho-logical Effects”; available from http://www.dec.pg.gda.pl/archive/1996-1998/englab/Internet.html; accessed 31 August 2002).


 * 42 Robert Putnam, “Bowling Alone: America’s Declining Social Capital” in Journal of Democracy 6:1, Jan 1995, 65-78; available from http://muse.jhu.edu/cgi-bin/access.cgi?uri=/journals/journal_of_democracy/v006/6.1putnam.html; accessed 31 August 2002.


 * 43 Castells, The Internet Galaxy, 130-131.


 * 44 Reich, The Future of Success, 158.


 * 45 Ibid., 174.


 * 46 Ibid., 175.


 * 47 Castells, Internet Galaxy, 124.


 * 48 Ibid., 132.


 * 49 Robert Kraut & Vicki Lundmark, “Internet Paradox: A Social Technology That Reduces Social Involvement and Psychological Well-Being?” in American Psychological Association 53: 9, 1017–1031 (1998); available from http://homenet.hcii.cs.cmu.edu/progress/research.html.


 * 50 Joseph E. Stiglitz, Globalization and Its Discontents (New York: Norton & Company, 2002), 9.


 * 51 Aseem Prakash and Jeffrey A. Hart, “Globalization and Governance: An Introduction”, in Aseem Prakash and Jeffrey A. Hart (eds.), Globalization and Governance (London: Routledge, 1999), 5.


 * 52 Giddens, “Runaway World,” 6.


 * 53 Kenichi Ohmae, The Invisible Continent: Four Strategic Imperatives of the New Economy(New York: HarperBusiness, 2000).


 * 54 Prakash and Hart, Globalization and Governance, 2.


 * 55 Institute on Governance, “Technology and Governance”; available from http://www.iog.ca/knowledge_areas.asp?pageID=6&amp;area=4; accessed 31 August 2002.


 * 56 Robert O. Keohane and Joseph S. Nye, Jr., “Power and Interdependence in the Information Age” Foreign Affairs Sept/Oct 1998; available from http://www.foreignaffairs.org/19980901faessay1419/robert-o-keohane-joseph-s-nye-jr/power-and-interdependence-in-the-information-age.html.


 * 57 Ibid.


 * 58 Castells, The Internet Galaxy, 160.


 * 59 John Arquilla and David Ronfeldt, The Emergence of Noopolitik: Toward an American Information Strategy (Santa Monica, CA: RAND National Defense Research Institute, 1999).


 * 60 James F. Dunnigan, The Next War Zone: Confronting the Global Threat of Cyberterrorism (New York: Citadel Press, 2002), 2.


 * 61 Mark M. Pollitt, "Cyberterrorism - Fact or Fancy?”; available from http://www.cs.georgetown.edu/~denning/infosec/pollitt.html; accessed 8 August 2002.


 * 62 http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/resguides/57.htm.


 * 63 http://wwww.apecsec.org.sg/download/pubs/LeadersStmtFightTerroNGrowth.pdf.


 * 64 Scott Berinato, “The Truth About Cyberterrorism” in CIO Magazine (15 March 2002); available from http://www.cio.com/archive/031502/truth.html; accessed 8 August 2002.


 * 65 bridges.org, “What is the Digital Divide?” (2000-2001); available from http://www.bridges.org/digitaldivide/index.html; accessed 8 August 2002.


 * 66 Taylor Nelson Sofres, “Adults Who Have Internet Access in Selected Countries in the Asia-Pacific Region, December 2000-February 2001 (as a % of Respondents)” in eMarketer (4 May 2001); available from http://www.emarketer.com/estatnews/estats/easia/20010508_tns_asia.html?ref=asw; accessed 24 June 2002.


 * 67 Lipsey, Technological Shocks, 19.


 * 68 The Digital Divide Network [home page on-line]; available from http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org.


 * 69 Digital Opportunity Task Force, Report Card: Digital Opportunities For All (June 2002); available from http://www.g7.utoronto.ca/summit/2002kananaskis/dotforce_reportcard.pdf.


 * 70 “Remote IT Village Project in Laos” in Jhai Foundation [home page on-line]; available from http://www.jhai.org/jhai_remoteIT.html; accessed 31 August 2002.


 * 71 “Information and communication technologies are creating a new global information society&mdash;from which four billion of the world’s people currently are excluded” in UN ICT Task Force [home page on-line]; available from http://www.unicttaskforce.org.


 * 72 Development Gateway Foundation [home page on-line]; available from http://www.developmentgateway.org; accessed 31 August 2002.