### social organization | business | publishing:

Electronic publishing
* allows many different kinds of information providers to serve schools.
* can include other forms of communication, like sound or video.
* has the potential to transform scientific communication.
* is also similar to broadcast media
  - an interdisciplinary program combining coursework from several disciplines
  - like printing
  - mediated by a computer, an agent capable of processing the information
  - more than just paper-less publishing
  - non-polluting and conserves our natural resources
  - one of the key growth areas of the modern economy
  - perceived as electronic mail, video -games and the Web
  - problematic in documenting original work
  - the publishing of materials via the website at no cost
* is the wave of the future, for a number of reasons
* offers a paperless means of distributing information and entertainment
  - the ability to add sound, animation, hyperlinks and more to books
* provides a means for distributing information at virtually no cost.
* unique way to reach the reading public.
* very economic way for new authors to start their careers.

Software publishing
* business, a large, important industry in the United States.
* dynamic and constantly changing industry.

### social organization | business | publishing:

Web publishing
* allows editors to continually alter, augment and correct their edition of a work.
* form of communication like no other.
* game that anyone can play.
* happens to be one of the fastest-growing sectors in the packaged software industry.
* has many advantages over traditional forms of publishing
  - similarities to that of the traditional print medium
* is an opportunity to demonstrate technical and graphic arts skills
  - another dynamic environment where change is essential for consistent success
  - the attempt to create a publication for a wide range of readers
* new paradigm for journalism.

### social organization | business:

Railroad
* Most railroads require all their employees to have a high school education.
* also spill chemicals out of tank cars and spray heavily with herbicides
  - use some frequencies to transmit end of train telemetry
* are a major carrier of long-distance freight and a minor carrier of passengers.
* are an extremely safe means of transporting freight
  - important means of transportation between cities in North Korea
  - another example of a switching network
  - businesses
  - one of Peru's main ways of transportation
* are private property, and are dangerous places
  - the environmentally preferred mode of transport
* are the most efficient land transportation method
  - important means of transport in Japan
* carry things in freight cars.
* continue to play an important role in the Texas transportation system.
* function to various degrees in different parts of the country as a means of travel.
* handle two-thirds of the nation's commercial passenger traffic.
* have operate procedures
  - special procedures
  - their own language, both technical terms and slang
* is most important means of transportation in the East.
* link the larger cities and towns of the country.
* means a person providing railroad transportation for compensation.
* provide safe, cost-effective, and reliable long distance transportation.
* tie removal and replacement is an ongoing annual process for an operating railroad museum.
* transport more than half of the total coal shipped each year.
* travel largely over their own rights of way, nearly all in the private domain.
* use large amounts of sand to improve traction on wet or slippery rails
  - ties, bridge timbers, and decking

### social organization | business | railroad:

Metro
* are musicals
  - railways
* investigate incidents.
* zoning classifies homeless shelters as multi-family dwellings.

Monorail
* also take up less space.
* are railways.
* hold up in earthquakes.