CMN2168 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Joseph Nye, The Strongest, Robert Keohane
6 Oct 2017
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Lecture 9: global multimedia networks in the digital age. The revolution process (1) a microelectronics revolution enabled the cloud architecture, but also spawned two other forces. Terminals became more powerful and escaped the desktop. The importance of information and technology of communication (ict) Technology per se does not solve social problems. But the availability and use of information and communication technologies are a pre- requisite for economic and social development in our world. They are the functional equivalent of electricity in the industrial era. Econometric studies show the close statistical relationship between diffusion of information technology, productivity and competitiveness for countries, regions, industries and firms. The vision of a networked society in which the people of the world are all connected, communicating with one another and co-operating for the common good, is popular and seductive. However, the educational and political significance and desirability of ict, as both a symbol and an aspect of globalization, is based on a developed-world perspective.
