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- Title
- Microcomputers for local government planning and management
- Author(s)
- Newton, Peter W.; Taylor, Michael A. P.
- Abstract
- The microcomputer is the most visible sign ofthe burgeoning information revolution. The indications are that this revolution will change our patterns of living and working just as profoundly as did the industrial revolution of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. However, this time the rate of change is certain to be faster. After all, the industrial revolution merely extended human muscle. The information revolution is extending the human mind and the consequences are bound to be far reaching. It is producing changes of several orders or more in the speed and cost effectiveness of processing information. A change of only one order in any system is said to produce fundamental qualitative change: for example, the change in travel speed (and mode) from walking to motor car travel has produced fundamental changes in urban development (such as suburbanization) and in our way-of-life. A change in speed and cost effectiveness of information processing of several orders, especially when coupled with a change in mode, is bound to have even more dramatic effects. [Foreword]
- Publication type
- Book
- Publication year
- 1986
- Keyword(s)
- Australia; Computers; Data processing; Local government; Technology
- Publisher
- Hargreen
- ISBN
- 0949905267
- Copyright
- Copyright © P. W. Newton & M. A. P. Taylor 1986.
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