Digital Futures : Living in a Networked World.
Title:
Digital Futures : Living in a Networked World.
Author:
Wilsdon, James.
ISBN:
9781849773829
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (249 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Glossary -- Figures, tables and boxes -- Foreword -- Introduction Digital futures: an agenda for a sustainable digital economy -- 1 Mind over matter: greening the new economy -- Response: Evan Davis -- 2 E-topia? Scenarios for e-commerce and sustainability -- Response: Amory Lovins -- 3 Dot-com ethics: e-business and sustainability -- Response: John Browning -- 4 Surfing alone? E-commerce and social capital -- Response: Madeleine Bunting -- 5 Sink or surf? Social inclusion in the digital age -- Response: Kevin Carey -- 6 Towards the sustainable e-region -- Response: Jim Norton -- 7 Virtual traffic: e-commerce, transport and distribution -- Response: Stephen Joseph and Tara Garnett -- 8 Bricks versus clicks: planning for the digital economy -- Response: Peter Hall -- Index.
Abstract:
Beyond the hype about dot-coms, WAP phones and dot-com entrepreneurs, what impacts will e-commerce have on society? How will it affect jobs and local communities? What will it mean for the environment - for energy use, transport and the future shape of our cities? How can we ensure that everyone enjoys the benefits of the new digital technologies? This is a groundbreaking exploration of the social and environmental impacts and opportunities of the new economy. It brings together the leading thinkers and visionaries from the worlds of policy, business and academia in an insightful, vigorous and at times controversial examination of the impact e-commerce will have on the way we live and work, and on the environment on which we all depend.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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