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Antidote to the Anytime, Anywhere, Anything Syndrome
Niles, John S.
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Associate Editor John Niles summarizes and comments on a new book from authors Stephen Graham and Simon Marvin entitled Telecommunications and the City, a definitive analysis of how "electronic spaces and urban places" coexist and grow together. The authors explore the relationship between urbanization trends and the technology of telecommunications.

Digital Infrastructure: The New Public Works?
Niles, John S.
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Describes a spectrum of activism defined by four patterns in which U.S. state governments span a continuum of approaches from inadvertent and unconscious on one end to building and operating government-owned telecommunications systems. Included in the discussion are two geographic perspectives -- statewide and community-by-community -- and a look at some of the barriers to government involvement.

Information Infrastructure: No Easy Road to Sustainable Development
Niles, John S.
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The author provides a provocative discussion of the changes the information infrastructure will bring to the concept of sustainable development. He presents some pros and cons and then entertains some questions that remain unanswered in his mind.

Telecommunications' Big Idea
Niles, John S.
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John Niles argues that the primary purpose of telecommunications for society is simply where best to go depends on what you know. In other words, telecommunications facilitates a better level and mix of proximity to the people and places we care about. He discusses the individual, organizational, and social forces that shape the choice between proximity and remote interaction, including the real costs of time and travel, internal reorganization, balkanization, interest articulation and interest aggregation.

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