Publication Date:
2000-08-05
Description:
In this month's essay, Robert Lucky examines the central sociological impacts that communications technologies have had on the way science is done as well as the critical influences science has had in the evolution of communications technology. He traces the evolution of today's infrastructure for research and collaboration in science via the Internet and the World Wide Web back to the invention of the telegraph, which first freed the flow of information from its reliance on the physical means of transportation and allowed communication to occur in real time. According to Lucky, the remaining technical hurdles in providing unlimited bandwidth are relatively simple to overcome compared with the sociotechnical engineering required to improve the three dimensions of communications--human to information, human to human, and human to computer.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Lucky, R -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2000 Jul 14;289(5477):259-64.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Telcordia Technologies.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10917852" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Books
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*Communication/history
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Electronics
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Forecasting
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History, 15th Century
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History, 16th Century
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History, 17th Century
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History, 18th Century
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History, 19th Century
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History, 20th Century
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History, Ancient
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History, Medieval
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Humans
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Information Systems
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Internet
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Periodicals as Topic
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Publishing
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Research
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*Science/history/trends
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Sociology
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Time Factors
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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