Rapid progress in information technologies has produced an
ever-broadening array of choices in information products. At the
same time, it has caused historically segmented industries, such as
television, telephones, computers, and print media, to converge and
compete. The result is a cornucopia of products and potential in
communications along with enormous strain on the governmental
institutions that use and regulate information technology. The
essays in this book provide a broad look at the many ways that
information technology relates to issues of governance and public
policy. Adjusting regulatory instititions to the new technical
realities is a great challenge. Will monopoly power threaten the
traditionally regulated areas of telephones and cable television or
the software systems that integrate all information technologies
into a single system with many competing players? Can traditional
approaches to intellectual property rights and control of socially
harmful content be applied to the converged information sector?
This book sheds light on these issues, and in so doing demonstrates
the usefulness of rigorous, multidisciplinary policy analysis in
assessing the significance of changing technology.
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