These notes provide a summary of the material covered in ECO361N: Informational Society. In the internet version of the notes you will go surfing for information rather than read Xeroxed media articles.

Revised 11 Jan 90 - Editor: Joanna Ostrom, grader Fall 89. Revised May 92, Jul 93, Nov 93, Aug 94, May-Jun 95 - Editor: Alfred Norman. In July 1995, Mark Schleuter, a grader, supplied two paragraphs on EDI.

• Discovery, Invention and Innovation
• Binary Numbers
• Microelectronics
• Hardware, Software and Impact
• Communication
• Automation: Goods
• Automation: Information
• Employment and income
• Community
• Economic System
• Information Policy
• Government
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