Examines the expansion of data services in Western Europe after the computer revolution. Stresses that distinctive career lines and eventually a distinctive profession must be created to cope with the proliferation of data and the increase in demand for access to this data. (Author/DB)

Discusses the features of automated information systems (AIS) in local governments. Examines three perspectives of the use and impact of automated information. These perspectives consider AIS as a rationalizing force, as controlled both by a self-serving technological elite and by its own technological imperatives, and as not qualitatively…

Argues that in an information age competence of an individual cannot be discerned in the product they produce but on the impression they make, therefore marketing through impressions provides basis for decision making. Sees challenge to education in teaching how to process information in the most appropriate way. (KO)