Shaping cyberspace - interpreting and transforming the Internet
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A study investigated the Internet from its beginnings to its metamorphosis into a pervasive international commercial information network in the late 1990s. It is argued that the different stages of development of the Internet were not inevitable because there were, in fact, alternatives which were abandoned or forgotten. The analysis raises the critical issue of how far the Internet can continue to grant increased access for large numbers of people to information/communication services it is primarily being shaped by entities that desire to transform it into a transaction medium.
Publication Name: Research Policy
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0048-7333
Year: 1999
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Uncharitable view
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Employees who choose not to participate in company fund-raisers are acting ethically if they base their decisions on principle. Private giving, while it may seem good on the surface, can undermine democracy. On another subject, a boy should not be discouraged to ask a girl out despite the rules he thinks her parents have imposed on her.
Publication Name: The New York Times Magazine
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ISSN: 0028-7822
Year: 1999
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Conner earns America's Cup berth
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Dennis Conner's Stars & Stripes earned the right to represent the US with a come-from-behind win in the final race in the defender's series over Mighty Mary. The US will now try to defend the America's Cup against the New Zealand boat Black Magic.
Publication Name: Facts on File
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0014-6641
Year: 1995
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