Questions if high technology will enhance comparative advantage of rural areas, alleviate difficulties facing local/rural public institutions, change traditional rural industries, give large farms greater advantage, create unequal distribution of benefits, depersonalize rural society. Concludes computers and telecommunications will impact rural…

Current international communication is typified by flow of information from the northern to the southern hemisphere, dominated by the developed nations in information gathering and dissemination, and intensified by technological advances. The imbalance of communication flow, considered by developing nations as responsible for political, economic,…

A new world has arrived in which computer and communications technologies will transform the national and global economies into information-driven economies. This is triggering the Information Revolution, which will have political and societal impacts every bit as profound as those of the Industrial Revolution. The 21st century is viewed as one…