Download or read book Information Technologies and Social Transformation written by National Academy of Engineering and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1985-02-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of papers by scholars of technology and society, based on a National Academy of Engineering symposium, explores the process of mutual adjustment between information technologies and social institutions. The topics addressed include recent developments and likely futures in information technology, comparison of information technology to historical developments in other technologies, and the interaction of information technology with businesses, homes, property rights in information, and various hierarchies of social organization.