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2. The Future of Work: What It Means for Individuals, Businesses, Markets and Governments
- Author:
- David Bollier
- Publication Date:
- 03-2011
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Aspen Institute
- Abstract:
- Over the course of the past generation, but especially since the World Wide Web emerged in 1994, digital technologies have been transforming the nature of work, the architectures of markets and the inner dynamics of organizations. They have also been altering the global economy and national cultures, which in turn is forcing governments to change how they build infrastructure, meet social needs and provide services.
- Topic:
- Economics, Education, Globalization, Government, International Trade and Finance, and Science and Technology
3. Information Technology and the New Global Economy: Tensions, Opportunities, and the Role of Public Policy
- Author:
- David Bollier
- Publication Date:
- 03-2005
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Aspen Institute
- Abstract:
- Changes in technology have been transforming commerce, politics, and culture for centuries. Yet it is now becoming clear that the explosion of the Internet and assorted digital technologies is provoking epochal changes in the global economy. Finance capital now roams the world with unprecedented speed. Transportation and logistics have become radically more efficient. Work readily moves to wherever it can be most skillfully and cheaply performed. Innovation and productivity are forging ahead, sometimes at blinding speeds.
- Topic:
- Development, Economics, Globalization, Government, and Science and Technology
4. People / Networks / Power: Communications Technologies and the New International Politics
- Author:
- David Bollier
- Publication Date:
- 03-2004
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Aspen Institute
- Abstract:
- Kurdish people living in Turkey can now receive satellite television broadcasts emanating from London. Iranians can view Farsi-language television programs that originate in Los Angeles. Even though they are dispersed throughout the world, emigrants from mainland China remain a vital diasporic community, thanks to websites and e-mail discussion lists. Insurgent movements from the Zapatistas to the East Timorese to Indonesian students have used the Internet to organize themselves and communicate a political vision to the world.
- Topic:
- International Relations, Politics, and Science and Technology
- Political Geography:
- United States, Turkey, London, Kurdistan, and Los Angeles
5. The Rise of Netpolitik: How the Internet Is Changing International Politics and Diplomacy
- Author:
- David Bollier
- Publication Date:
- 02-2003
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Aspen Institute
- Abstract:
- In the midst of her travels as Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright decided to venture off the standard diplomatic tour and visit the local market in Bakhara, Uzbekistan. “For all intents and purposes it could have been in the fifteenth century,” she recalled. “It was a big camel market, with rugs that looked liked they had been hanging there for a long time. Dust and all that.”
- Topic:
- Diplomacy, Government, International Political Economy, and Science and Technology
6. Uncharted Territory: New Frontiers of Digital Innovation
- Author:
- David Bollier
- Publication Date:
- 01-2001
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Aspen Institute
- Abstract:
- Now that the heady first paroxysms of electronic commerce (e-commerce) have faded—and the online sector has experienced its first major shake-out—thinking about what it means to live in a digital economy is becoming more focused. Established businesses are becoming more strategic in exploiting digital technologies. Venture capitalists are becoming more discriminating in their investments. Governments at all levels are exploring how to integrate the Internet and other technologies to advance their missions.
- Topic:
- Industrial Policy and Science and Technology
- Political Geography:
- United States
7. Ecologies of Innovation: The Role of Information and Communications Technologies
- Author:
- David Bollier
- Publication Date:
- 01-2000
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Aspen Institute
- Abstract:
- It has become a truism in recent years that technological innovation lies at the core of a robust economy. Once an arcane matter for economists, innovation has moved from the back salons of corporate strategy to the grand ballroom of mainstream culture. Fueled by the World Wide Web and other electronic technologies, unknown entrepreneurs with big ideas have joined with investment bankers, multinational corporations, and Main Street investors on a relentless search for The New New Thing, as the title of Michael Lewis' book on Silicon Valley calls it.
- Topic:
- Industrial Policy and Science and Technology
- Political Geography:
- United States
8. Media Madness: The Revolution So Far
- Author:
- David Bollier and Max Frankel
- Publication Date:
- 01-1999
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Aspen Institute
- Abstract:
- Henry, for that generous introduction. I am proud to bear the title of Catto Fellow and if I were allowed to recite your biography as you have recited mine, you would know the source of my great pride. But like Harry Evans in a similar recent situation, (and now also his wife, Tina Brown), I am reminded of the New Yorker cartoon showing a partygoer being introduced at a cocktail party while enduring the urgent plea of a spouse: “Tell them who you WERE, dear. Tell them who you WERE!” I have to emphasize who I once was not only because I have retired from executive duties but also because the Revolution that I have come to discuss often regards me as passé, out of date, an expiring person of print—you know, that dying industry. That may be so. But the revolutionary “new” media are exhausting themselves parading their newness while actually betraying highly familiar symptoms of a very old media disease. We are all mad: just not newly mad.
- Topic:
- Industrial Policy and Science and Technology
- Political Geography:
- United States and New York
9. The Global Wave of Entrepreneurialism: Harnessing the Synergies of Personal Initiative, Digital Technologies, and Global Commerce
- Author:
- David Bollier
- Publication Date:
- 01-1999
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Aspen Institute
- Abstract:
- Future historians may call this period the entrepreneurial age. Rarely has such an explosion of new business ventures, technological innovation, and cultural experimentation swept across diverse cultures of the globe simultaneously. Government leaders in Beijing and Singapore, Warsaw and Caracas, Moscow and London are looking to business mavericks to energize their economies. Multinational companies are eager to instill entrepreneurial values within their workforces to boost their competitiveness. On the periphery of such power centers, meanwhile, entrepreneurs large and small are remaking entire sectors of the economy and creating high-tech boomtowns in San Jose, California; Bangalore, India; Cambridge, England; Austin, Texas; and many other places.
- Topic:
- Industrial Policy and Science and Technology
- Political Geography:
- United States, India, London, California, Moscow, England, Singapore, Bangalore, Austin, and Texas
10. Global Advance of Electronic Commerce
- Author:
- David Bollier and Charles M. Firestone
- Publication Date:
- 08-1997
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Aspen Institute
- Abstract:
- As use of the Internet has grown by leaps and bounds, it is clear that electronic commerce will proliferate rapidly in the years ahead. The number of Internet domains in the United States is more than 1.3 million. Most major companies now have Web sites, if only to market themselves, and many others are exploiting intranets to improve internal operations. As many as 163 million personal computers worldwide will have access to the Internet by the year 2000. As television and telephony migrate onto the Internet, wireless communication explodes, and countless other new applications attract users, one of the biggest challenges is understanding the economic and social logic driving change.
- Topic:
- Economics, Globalization, International Political Economy, Science and Technology, and Sovereignty
- Political Geography:
- United States