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Communications Policy and Information Technology: Promises, Problems, Prospects
New technologies, although developed with optimism, often fall short of their predicted potential and create new problems. Communications technologies are no different. Their utopian proponents claim that universal access to advanced communications technologies can help to feed the hungry, cure the sick, educate the illiterate, improve the global standard of living, and ultimately bring about w…
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Communications policy in transition :the Internet and beyond
Papers from the 28th Telecommunications Policy Research Conference held in Alexandria, Va. in the Fall of 2000.Until the 1980s, it was presumed that technical change in most communications services could easily be monitored from centralized state and federal agencies. This presumption was long outdated prior to the commercialization of the Internet. With the Internet, the long-forecast converge…
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