Information technology and societal development

• Main Author: Targowski, Andrzej.
• Corporate Author: IGI Global.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2009.
• Subjects: Information technology > Social aspects.; Communication > Social aspects.; Technology > Social aspects.; Information society.; Accumulation principle; Architecture of a civilization; Civilization approach to human development; Civilization continuity and memory; Civilization evolution; Civilization life-cycle; Communicated harmony; Contemporary civilization approach; Eco-philosophy; Harmonic development of existence; Information technology; Methods of civilization study; Planet civilization; Social development; Strategies of civilization development; Universal laws of civilization; Wisdom principle; World-system approach
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"This book investigates the role of information and communication in civilization's development, because it is information and communication that decide how human organization, knowledge, and wisdom are applied in decisions impacting human survival"--Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents:

• 1. The civilization grand model
• 2. Civilization life cycle : introduction
• 3. The civilization index
• 4. (A) Liberating the future from the past
• 5. (B) Liberating the past from the future
• 6. Will wisdom save the human project?
• 7. From global to universal-complementary civilization
• 8. Theory of critical total history of civilization
• 9. The information wave of civilization
• 10. Information and organization
• 11. Service science and automation laws
• 12. Information laws
• 13. The electronic global village
• 14. Information societies
• 15. Asymmetric communication / Andrew Targowski & Ali Metwalli
• 16. Civilization market integration
• 17. The future of civilization
• 18. The information architecture of the universe.