Global Communications – Promises and Pitfalls
Joseph N. Pelton · Interdisciplinary Science Reviews · 1986
Technical progress in the area of telecommunications, informatics and robotics is analyzed. The prospects for a future global electronic village are discussed, focusing especially on how technology should be more equitably and effectively shared, and how it might be more constructively channeled in order to avoid undesirable side effects. Future challenges for developing countries and developed countries alike are identified; yet the conclusion is reached that there are no clear-cut answers. In the current age of future compression, the technological challenges to survival and continued social development are as great as at any time in man's history.