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More than ever before, advances in the fields of information and communication technologies (ICTs) have substantially affected most segments of our individual life in today's world. Manifested in various aspects and to varying extents, the changes and evolution are often collectively referred to as the "Information Age," or the "Information Revolution." It is this Information Age that has been posing a direct or indirect influence– whether positive or negative–on the way we think, behave, communicate, work, and even on how we earn our living. 'Information' has become a principal 'commodity' by which one measures levels of not only education, skills and knowledge, but also levels of well-being, prosperity, wealth, and development on a personal, local, national, and international scale. As the worldwide information landscape becomes more and more interconnected and interdependent, it is argued that the existing gap between the "haves" and "have-nots" will diminish. Interdependencies growing in all aspects of our lives should, after all, lead to real possibilities for achieving economic prosperity and attaining global peace. Nevertheless, they also produce powerful forces of social fragmentation, open critical vulnerabilities, and breed violence and conflict. Crises now bypass traditional state borders. The expanding global economic interactions, the spread of knowledge, the dispersion of advanced technologies, and the movements of people are just some of the threats, which are global in scope.
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GenrePsychology, Literary Classics
Length18 hrs 14 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
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Publish dateJan 11, 2011
LanguagePortuguese
Table of contents
1IGOR ANDRÉ CARNEIRO
2ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
3Revolution.”
4Geneva in 2003, and in Tunisia in 2005.
5Even more so, the global reach and influence of transnational corporations
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6Even at the local government level, certain traditional mechanisms of
7THE INFORMATION AGE
8I.I. The Evolution of the Knowledge Society
9(‘History of Computer Science: Treatment of information and automation’), at: http://www.histoire-informatique.org/grandes_dates/1_2.html
10Figure 1. 1. Real Median Hourly Wage by Education Level, 1973-2001
11educational sector.
12million, or 16.5%, by the year of 2010.
137 International Literacy Explorer, Statistics, “Introduction: The Limitations of Literacy
148 International Literacy Explorer, “Literacy Overview: Using Literacy Statistics,” at:
15I.I.I. Features of the Information Age
16optical media 0.002%.
17of the world’s
18Risks’), sous la direction de Pascal CHAIGNEAU, Paris: Economica, 2001, pp.
19almost unimpeachable source, rather than an unknown Kuwaiti girl, the
20I.I.II. Power in the Information Age
21Then there
22Illustration 1. 1. The distribution of power in the Information Age
23plant crops. Distance learning and Internet connections may even more
24and economies of scale remain in some of the aspects of power
25Information Age).
26States).21
27As an eventual consequence of the religious wars between the East and
2822 “Soviets Launch Computers Literacy Drive,” Science, January 10, 1986, 109-10.
29I.I.IV. Global Trends of Science and Technology in the Information Age
3026 “MIT Technology Review,” at: www.technologyreview.com, January/February 2001.
3127 The Global Technology Revolution, Summary, 2001, pp. 1-2.
32Another remarkable progress
3329 Ibid.
34features just a few centimeters in diameter on the ground.
35the traditions and modes of thought of a single culture.
36experience….
37Like
38the significant development of the erotic dimension of the Internet.
39Since technology-based international communication cannot, as
40For instance, the National Security Educational Program (NSEP)35 uses
4136 Walter R. Roberts, “Government Broadcasting,” iMP Magazine, July 23, 2001
42Pacific.
43Asia” (essentially to China, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia).39 39
44Principal dates’, at: http://rfi.fr/Fichiers/RFI/Historie/histoire.asp).
45allies and enemies.
4641 Veran Matic, “Between an Electronic Gulag and the Global Village,”
47I.II. The Rise of Globalization
48Globalization, with particular reference to its role as a generator of
49I.II.I. The Emergence and Implications of Globalization
50world without reference to nationality, government authority, time of day