Abstract
Many social critics, jounalists and scholars have speculated about the impacts of information technologies. Speculation, however, is not a science. Many of the descriptions regarding the impacts of information technologies are nothing but wishful predictions without convincing grounds. What will become possible technologically and what will happen actually are often different. A distinction must be clearly made between arguments about technological feasibilities and scientific predictions about the future.
The writer would like to thank James W. Dearing of the Annenberg School of Communications, University of Southern California for helpful comments on an earlier draft.
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Ito, Y. (1990). The Social and Cultural Impacts of Information Technology. In: Meyer-Krahmer, F., Müller, J., Preißl, B. (eds) Information Technology: Impacts, Policies and Future Perspectives. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-75577-4_5
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