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The Technological Hare and Social Snail

In: The Integrity of Intelligence

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  • Bryan Glastonbury

    (University of Southampton)

  • Walter Lamendola

    (Colorado Trust)

Abstract

Summary Connectivity is now the buzz word” says a computer journal with a large circulation (Personal Computer World) reflecting a widely held view within IT ranks. It refers to the notion of getting people and their technology linked and working together, and is a direct contradiction of the suggestion in earlier chapters that far from connections existing between IT and societies, there is a gulf and a significant degree of alienation. In their own environment, with their own horizons, computer people can find connectivity: indeed, they can illustrate the substance of its achievement by pointing to the huge expansion of network links. We argue that for the world outside there is less evidence of sympathetic associations, and more of self-centred and mindless exploitation. Even within the IT world there are major divisions, based on underlying principles of computer system organization and functioning, which impinge on the rest of us. This chapter will probe the relationship between IT growth and the condition of society, analyzing the nature and sources of alienation, if indeed it exists, and developing the argument that technology change has outstripped its social integration.

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  • Bryan Glastonbury & Walter Lamendola, 1992. "The Technological Hare and Social Snail," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Jo Campling (ed.), The Integrity of Intelligence, chapter 4, pages 49-60, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-22734-1_4
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-22734-1_4
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