Readings in Information Society

For the last twenty years, Information and Communication Technologies have been taken as the main evidence for a new way of doing old things that emerges in everyday activities. Since then, a number of authors and institutions take a considerable amount of energy in delivering services, applications and even studies that demonstrate the existence of a true Information Society with a new order for dealing with the individual, the group and the community. This implies a number of changes that, even today; we still need to discover both the extent and the implication of what will be their real impact.
This book results as one of these studies that intends to promote the discussion on how Information Society will affect our life. The book is organised into three parts: Digital Cities, which deals with territory impact; Education and Learning, which deals with one of the most important human abilities, and the last part concerns with Economics and Communities who presents a number of positions from authors all over the world about how Information Society may impact on activities as diverse as technology use, e-commerce, enterprise creation, World Wide Web use, and tourism.