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Stepping stones to an information society

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SOFSEM'97: Theory and Practice of Informatics (SOFSEM 1997)

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The information revolution is radically transforming lots of patterns along which society and enterprises have traditionally worked. These changes do not bring just minor technological improvements, but indeed a fundamental transformation of the industry-based society into an information-based one. The changes are most visible and documented within the business world, but the synergy between technological and social shifts does not stop there. In this paper we try to identify and summarize key trends and challenges which this development puts before us.

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Zlatuška, J. (1997). Stepping stones to an information society. In: Plášil, F., Jeffery, K.G. (eds) SOFSEM'97: Theory and Practice of Informatics. SOFSEM 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1338. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-63774-5_115

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