The changing relationship between information technology and society
Marti A. Hearst · IEEE Intelligent Systems and their Applications · 1999
Society and information technology are rapidly co-evolving, and often in surprising ways. The paper considers different views on how society and networked information technology are changing one another. Becoming socialized means learning what kinds of behaviour are appropriate in a given social situation. The increasing trend of digitizing and storing our social and intellectual interactions opens the door to new ways of gathering and synthesizing information that was previously disconnected.