Networks, Failures, Futures and Adaptivity: ICT as ‘Humpty Dumpty’

Mark Stubbs, Gareth Griffiths and Dave Tucker

Chapter 20 in Business Information Technology Management Alternative and Adaptive futures, 2000, pp 307-314 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Increasingly, ICTs are being taken for granted. When their behaviour does not surprise us, we find them unremarkable. It is convenient to treat things this way. Usually, we are not amazed when databases, mobile telephones or Internet browsers link us with the electronic representations of disembodied others. We rarely marvel that these representations have travelled across space and time (from the past into the present) to be with us. It just happens. ICTs have become part of the fabric of society. Admittedly, we struggle to predict what they will be like in the future. But, we find it equally difficult to imagine a future without them.

Keywords: Adaptive Capacity; Network Theory; Mobile Telephone; Failure Scenario; Internet Browser (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000
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DOI: 10.1057/9780333977675_21

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