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Communications and the future : prospects, promises, and problems / edited by Howard F. Didsbury, Jr.

Contributor(s): Didsbury, Howard F, 1924- [(ed.)] | World Future Society.
Publisher: Bethesda, Md. : World Future Society, c1982Description: vii, 357 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 0930242165.Subject(s): Communication -- Technological innovations -- CongressesDDC classification: 001.51
Contents:
Communications Technologies and Education: The Coming Transformation. Using Video in Rural Development. The Future of Public Library Service: A Behavioral View. Communications for Global Development: Closing the Information Gap. Telecommunications and the Future. The Telecommunications Role of Local Government. Telecommunication Alternatives to Transportation. A Scenario of the Telematics Future. Communicating with One's Self: A Wave of the Future. Politics and the New Media. Communication Systems, Technology, and Culture. Microcomputers - Order Through Fluctuation: Implications for Education. Problem/Possibility Focusers: A New Knowledge System for the Communications Era. The Future of the Rural Public Library. Where Are the Peasants?. Telepropinquity: Implications for Business Trading Systems. - Problems. The Future of High Technology in America. The Serpent in the Garden. The MacBride Commission Report: Issues and Process in Global Communications. The Medium Is the Madness: Television and the Pseudo-Oral Tradition in America's Future. The Decay of Purposive Communication. Future Communications: Problems and Possibilities. The Radio Frequency Spectrum and the New World Information Order: Implications for the Future of Information.
Introduction. - Prospects. The Future of Literature. Brazil and the Information Societies of the Twenty-First Century. The Future of Language: Basic Tool of Communication. A Common Second Language: GLOSSA. The Golden International: Communication Triumph and Breakdown. Information Technology and the Flowering of Enterprise. The Future of Instructional Technology. Utopia: We Can Get There from Here-- By Computer. Twice As Natural: Speculations on the Emerging Information Culture. Non-Communication and the Future. The Information Civilization: The Challenging Upward Trail for Humanity. The Future of Global Satellite Communications: Space Odyssey 2000. Global Talk and the World of Telecomputerenergetics. An Assessment of Japan As an Information Society in the 1980s. Leapfrog Strategy in the Information Age. Doing the Traditional Untraditionally. - Promises. Videotex: Blessing or Bane for the "Boob Tube"? "Reverse Negotiation" : A New Conflict Management Tool. Synthesized Speech: A Communication Breakthrough. Telecommunications: The Next Generation. Technology Is Not Enough. People Lead Their Leaders in an Information Society.

"Prepared in conjunction with the Fourth General Assembly of the World Future Society, held in Washington, D.C. July 18-22, 1982"-- p. vi.

Communications Technologies and Education: The Coming Transformation. Using Video in Rural Development. The Future of Public Library Service: A Behavioral View. Communications for Global Development: Closing the Information Gap. Telecommunications and the Future. The Telecommunications Role of Local Government. Telecommunication Alternatives to Transportation. A Scenario of the Telematics Future. Communicating with One's Self: A Wave of the Future. Politics and the New Media. Communication Systems, Technology, and Culture. Microcomputers - Order Through Fluctuation: Implications for Education. Problem/Possibility Focusers: A New Knowledge System for the Communications Era. The Future of the Rural Public Library. Where Are the Peasants?. Telepropinquity: Implications for Business Trading Systems. - Problems. The Future of High Technology in America. The Serpent in the Garden. The MacBride Commission Report: Issues and Process in Global Communications. The Medium Is the Madness: Television and the Pseudo-Oral Tradition in America's Future. The Decay of Purposive Communication. Future Communications: Problems and Possibilities. The Radio Frequency Spectrum and the New World Information Order: Implications for the Future of Information.

Introduction. - Prospects. The Future of Literature. Brazil and the Information Societies of the Twenty-First Century. The Future of Language: Basic Tool of Communication. A Common Second Language: GLOSSA. The Golden International: Communication Triumph and Breakdown. Information Technology and the Flowering of Enterprise. The Future of Instructional Technology. Utopia: We Can Get There from Here-- By Computer. Twice As Natural: Speculations on the Emerging Information Culture. Non-Communication and the Future. The Information Civilization: The Challenging Upward Trail for Humanity. The Future of Global Satellite Communications: Space Odyssey 2000. Global Talk and the World of Telecomputerenergetics. An Assessment of Japan As an Information Society in the 1980s. Leapfrog Strategy in the Information Age. Doing the Traditional Untraditionally. - Promises. Videotex: Blessing or Bane for the "Boob Tube"? "Reverse Negotiation" : A New Conflict Management Tool. Synthesized Speech: A Communication Breakthrough. Telecommunications: The Next Generation. Technology Is Not Enough. People Lead Their Leaders in an Information Society.