Technology and Globalisation: An Overview

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Globalisation is a term too easily used without reference to the basic enabling role of technology. It is the interplay between available technology and the prevailing social processes, especially dominant institutional forms, which has essentially determined the long process of globalisation. This process has gone through phases exhibiting varying core characteristics as production, transport and communications technologies especially have interrelated with the institutional structures of nation states, military forces and firms especially. However, a general trend to geographical and tendentially global expansion has been constant, along with an intensification of information processing and communications capacity. The role of technology has been to enable this physical expansion culminating in globalisation, including the techno-industrial capacity that increasingly drove it through the construction of better and cheaper artefacts.

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Title: Prometheus

Subtitle: Critical Studies in Innovation

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ISSN (Print): 0810-9028

ISSN (Electronic): 1470-1030

Publication date (Print): September 2001

Volume: 19

Issue: 3

Pages: 211-222

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[77] Schiller D.. 1982. . Telematics and Government . , New Jersey : : Ablex Publishing Corporation. .

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