New Technology in the Human Services

Lown B (1997) Levelling the Playing Fields on the Information Highway: SatelLife New Technology in the Human Services Vol:10(1) pp.11-17
Abstract A new global order is emerging compelled by unstoppable forces - including instant communication, an information revolution, the unification of the world economy into a single world market, the unprecedented burgeoning of travel and tourism, a population explosion and mass migrations, the sweep of intractable infectious disease, and galloping ecological imperatives. In this article I wish to focus on three issues: the information revolution, the uneven divide in information access, and lastly point to some remedies.
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