i in the Sky: Visions of the Information FutureAlison Scammell i in the Sky is a collection of essays by more than 40 experts, including such leading writers as Charles Handy, Don Tapscott, and Kevin Warwick, giving their personal vision of the future of information. Information here is given its widest meaning and includes such subjects as the Internet, electronic commerce, cybernetics, robotics, artificial intelligence, and even computers as fashion accessories. Information as phenomenon pervades all areas of life, and its evolution has consequences for everyone. Many of the essays have as their central themes the future of computer intelligence; library and information services; interactive Internet marketing; networked learning in higher education; the linking of technology enabling remote and online communication to the deconstruction of the modern corporation; artificial intelligence; scholarly communication; smart houses; intelligent appliances; etc. |
Contents
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6 Information Everywhere | 35 |
Substance With Style | 43 |
8 The Future of Information Access | 51 |
23 Toward a Sustainable Science of Information | 152 |
An Agenda for Information Specialists | 162 |
The Future of Library and Information Services | 169 |
Content Structure Publication | 177 |
27 Helping Small Business Encounter Information | 185 |
28 Information Communication and the EGeneration | 191 |
29 Work Information Technology and Sustainability | 195 |
30 How Will Future Information Technology Affect Me? A Personal User Perspective | 204 |
9 Marketing in the Digital Economy | 55 |
10 Assessing the Impact of Information in the Digital Age | 61 |
Digital Information Feeds the Business Ecosystem | 66 |
12 A Cup HalfFull | 74 |
Academic Entrepreneurs and the Future for Information | 81 |
14 Why We Need a Science of Information | 93 |
15 Net Effect On the 21st Century | 101 |
16 Yesterdays Tomorrows | 104 |
17 Why the Knowledge Revolution Needs a Cultural Revolution | 111 |
Charting the Future | 117 |
19 Information Ontologies for a Digital World | 128 |
20 The Information Specialist as Fulcrum | 133 |
21 Experiential Documents and the Technologies of Remembrance | 140 |
22 Waking the Giant The Internet and Information Revolution in Africa | 147 |
31 The Future of Scholarly Skywriting | 216 |
32 From the Satisfaction of Basic Needs to Information Literate Societies | 219 |
The Future of Information is Now | 227 |
34 Marchers in Time | 234 |
35 Chinese Web | 240 |
36 The Revolution Will Be Customised | 247 |
37 Information Wars F is for Fake | 253 |
38 Musings On the Future of Information | 263 |
39 Creating Creators | 270 |
The Future of Information and Disability | 276 |
41 Human Error | 284 |
Notes on Contributors | 293 |