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Emerging issues
The centrality of communication technologies in our everyday lives can hardly be doubted. Nor can their crucial importance in the continuous renewal and reinvention of how our societies work. However, while claims about what the “information society” can offer us in terms of prosperity, abundance, pleasure and democracy abound, we need to take a hard look and try to distinguish between the feasible and the fantastic
Exploring the Limits: Europe’s Changing Communication Environment
The ECC was formed in 1996 to discuss current developments in information and communication technologies and related perspectives for economics, politics and social systems. The 1997 report gives a scientific evaluation of some of the discussed trends in our society