The Global Course of the Information Revolution: Recurring Themes and Regional Variations

Advances in information technology are heavily influencing ways in which business, society, and government work and function throughout the globe, bringing many changes to everyday life, in a process commonly termed the "information revolution." This book paints a picture of the state of the information revolution today and how it will likely progress in the near- to mid-term future (10 to 15 years), focusing separately on different regions of the world-North America, Europe, the Asia-Pacific region, Latin America, the Middle East and North Africa, and sub-Saharan Africa.

Richard O. Hundley (Ph.D., Physics, California Institute of Technology) is a senior physical scientist, Technology and Applied Sciences Group, and Senior Research Leader, NSRD Acquisition and Technology Policy Center, at RAND, Santa Monica, California.

Robert H. Anderson (Ph.D., Applied Mathematics, Harvard University) is a senior information scientist at RAND. Research areas include social implications of the information revolution; security and safety of internetted networks; computer languages and support environments for modeling and simulation; human-computer interface; use of computers for C3I and defense intelligence operations; and software development methodologies.

Tora Kay Bikson (Ph.D., Psychology, University of California Los Angeles) is a behavioral scientist at RAND and Technical Consultant for the Information Systems Coordination Committee of the United Nations.

Carl Richard Neu (Ph.D., Economics, Harvard University) is a senior economist at RAND.