From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure
Subtitle: Access to Information in the Networked World (Digital Libraries and Electronic Publishing)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: March 1, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780262523455
Subjects: Computer Communications & Networking; Impact of science & technology on society; Library & Information Sciences; Electronic Publishing; Computers; Computers - Communications / Networking; Computer Books: General; Information Theory; Library & Information Science; Computers / Information Theory
First sentence: The premise of a global information infrastructure is that governments, businesses, communities, and individuals can cooperate to link the world's telecommunication and computer networks together into a vast constellation capable of carrying digital and analog signals in support of every conceivable information and communication application.