... Information superhighway Internet IT According to the author of Civilizing the Internet, this medium has created significant changes in society and how we think, act and work. This is especially true with regard to communication in its principal modern forms, broadcasting, telecommunications...

... which is important for the planners of library service in Britain, but not elsewhere. The organisation of the report, the assumption that its readers will also have read the earlier editions, and the ambiguities in some of the data make it hard to use. The amazingly small number of references...

... on the production of information and knowledge and its importance to a nation’s economy (Machlup, 1972). In 1977 Porat and Rubin (1977) made a comprehensive quantitative sectoral study of information economy in the USA. In the early 1980s the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), through its...