
Microelectronics and Society
For Better or for Worse
- 1st Edition - February 26, 1982
- Imprint: Pergamon
- Editors: G. Friedrichs, A. Schaff
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 2 8 9 5 5 - 7
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 2 - 9 2 9 0 - 8
Through automation and miniaturisation, microelectronics has vast potential for thrusting society into a new phase. It promises to revolutionise the information handling aspects of… Read more

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Request a sales quoteThrough automation and miniaturisation, microelectronics has vast potential for thrusting society into a new phase. It promises to revolutionise the information handling aspects of our lives. But to gain maximum benefit from this breakthrough, microelectronics must be harnessed to society's needs. To help this process a multidisciplinary group of authors has prepared a report to the Club of Rome on the likely impact of microelectronics on our futures
For general readers interested in societal change and particularly managers, trade unionists, social scientists and information technologists
(partial) Introduction: a new industrial revolution or just another technology?, A. King
The technology, T.R. Ide
The technology applied, R. Curnow & S. Curran
The impact on the enterprise, B. Lamborghini
The worker and the workplace, J. Evans
Microelectronics and macroeconomics, G. Friedrichs
A Third World perspective, J.F. Rada
Microelectronics in war, F. Barnaby
Information technology and society, K. Lenk
Microelectronics and world interdependence, A. King
Occupation versus work, A. Schaff
- Edition: 1
- Published: February 26, 1982
- Imprint: Pergamon
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780080289557
- eBook ISBN: 9781483292908
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G. Friedrichs
Affiliations and expertise
German Metalworkers Union, Frankfurt, FRGAS
A. Schaff
Affiliations and expertise
European Coordination Centre for Research and Documentation in Social Sciences, Vienna, AustriaRead Microelectronics and Society on ScienceDirect