Interesting article from a historian comparing the current information revolution to the second industrial revolution(that is, the advent of electricity and internal combustion in the late 1800s and early 1900s). Mostly a cautionary tale, the article warns university administrators to be careful when predicting the outcomes of new technologies and describes institutional structures for adapting to widespread change. I think the author is too conservative - I think the information revolution, which gives us something new, is much more fundamental than the second industrial revolution, which gave us more of the same. PDF format and therefore miserable to read online. By Thomas P. Hughes, EDUCAUSE Review, July/August, 2001.
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