Prometheus. Critical Studies in Innovation

Prometheus

Volume 14, Issue 1

Issue date: 01 June 1996

Journal: Prometheus. Critical Studies in Innovation

EDITORIAL Don Lamberton	4
COMMUNICATION FUTURES IN AUSTRALIA John V. Langdale	5
BRINGING MULTIPLE PERSPECTIVES TO AUSTRALIA'S COMMUNICATION FUTURES: BEYOND THE SUPERHIGHWAY? June Lennie, Greg Hearn, Tony Stevenson …	10
A TELECOMMUNICATIONS INFRASTRUCTURE IS NOT AN INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE Don Lamberton	31
SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES ON AUSTRALIA'S COMMUNICATIONS FUTURE John V. Langdale	39
AUSTRALIAN TELECOMMUNICATIONS POLICY IN AN INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT: ISSUES FOR THE FUTURE R.A. Joseph	51
TELEVISION FUTURES IN AUSTRALIA Tom O'Regan	66
RE-ENGINEERING TELECOMMUNICATIONS FOR THE WAY PEOPLE WANT TO LIVE: SOCIAL RESEARCH IN THE DESIGN OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES Patricia Gillard, Karen Wale, Amanda Bow	80
REVIEW ARTICLE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT: WHY REFORM IS NEEDED John Goldberg	90
What Machines Can't Do: Politics and Technology in the Industrial Enterprise by Robert J Thomas (University of California Press, Los Angeles and London, 1994), pp xviii + 314. $US 16.00. ISBN 0520 081315 Fred Jevons	100
Information Services for Innovative Organizations by Carmel Maguire, Edward J. Kazlauskas and Anthony D. Weir (Academic Press Professional, San Diego, 1994) pp.xiv + 319, US$55.00, ISBN 0-12-465030-9 Stuart Macdonald	103
Colonial Technology — Science and the Transfer of Innovation to Australia by Jan Todd (Cambridge University Press, Oakleigh, Victoria, 1995), pp. xii + 300, A$49.95, ISBN 0-521-46138-3 (hb) A.L. Lougheed	104
After the Fact: Two Countries, Four Decades, One Anthropologist by Clifford Geertz (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1995), pp.198, A$44.50, ISBN 0-674-008715 D.McL. Lamberton	106
Cultural Economics and Cultural Policies edited by Alan Peacock and Ilde Rizzo, (Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Boston, London, 1994). pp. vii + 184, US$87.00, ISBN 07923-2868-X Sonia S. Gold	108
Waves of Change: Business Evolution through Information Technology by James L. McKenney with Duncan C. Copeland, Richard O. Mason (Harvard Business School Press, Boston, MA, 1995), pp. xiv + 230, A$54.95, ISBN 0-87584-564-9 Alwin Mahler	110
Incentive Regulation and the Regulation of Incentives by Glenn Blackmon (Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht and Boston, 1994), pp. x + 133, US$69.95. ISBN 0 7923 9470 4 Sanford V. Berg	113
Public Access to the Internet edited by Brian Kahin and James Keller (The MIT Press, Cambridge, 1995), pp. viii + 390, US$20.00, ISBN 0-262-61118-X Harry Bruce	116
Telecommunications in the Pacific Basin: An Evolutionary Approach edited by Eli Noam, Seisuke Komatsuzaki, Douglas A. Conn, (Oxford University Press, New York, 1994), pp. xvii + 514, A$110, ISBN 0-19-508421-7 Terry Cutler	118
New Worlds in Information and Documentation edited by J.R. Alvaraez-Ossorio and B.G. Goedegebuure (Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1994), pp. x + 495, ISBN 0 444 81891 X Karen Sampford	120
Work for All or Mass Unemployment: Computerised Technical Change into the 21 Century by Chris Freeman and Luc Soete (Pinter Publishers, London New York, 1994), pp ix + 193, £ 35.99 (hb), £ 10.99 (pb), ISBN I 85567256 1 Peter Hall	123
Science Policy: New Mechanisms for Scientific Collaboration between East and West edited by Valentin A. Koptyug and Jean Klerkx (Kluwer, Dordrecht, 1995), pp. xxxiii+256, US$ 145.00, ISBN 0-7923-3227-X Dora Marinova	126
The Knowledge Industries: Levers of Economic and Social Development in the 1990s edited by Blaise Cronin and Neva Tudor-Silovic, (Aslib, The Association for Information Management, London, 1990), pp. x +332, ISBN 0 85142 266 7 Luís Monteiro	129
On-the-job learning in the software industry: corporate culture and the acquisition of knowledge by Marc Sacks. (Quorum Books, Westport, Connecticut, 1994) pp.216. US$55.00, ISBN 0-89930-865-1 Steve New	131
Coordination and Information: Historical Perspectives on the Organization of Enterprise edited by Naomi R.Lamoreaux and Daniel M.G.Raff (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1995), pp.viii + 337, £stg. 17.95, ISBN: 0-226-46820-8 (cloth), 0-226-46821-6 (pb) D.McL. Lamberton	132
Multinationals and governments: Issues and implications for Australia by Bureau of Industry Economics, Research Report 49 (Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra 1993), pp. xv + 197, A$16.95, ISBN not available Ernst-Olav Ruhle	133
Responding to Global Warming by Peter Read (Zed Books Ltd, London, 1994) pp. xiv +304, ISBN 1-85649-161-7 Carrie Sonneborn	136
The Turn of the Tide: Computerization in Dutch Society 1900–1965 by Jan van den Ende (Delft University Press, Delft, 1994), pp 267, NGL 63.60, ISBN 90-407-1005-8 Aksel Hagen Tjora	138
Biographical Encyclopedia of Scientists, Second Edition, Volume 1 and Volume 2, compiled by John Daintith, Sarah Mitchell, Elizabeth Tootill and Derek Gjertsen, (Institute of Physics Publishing, Bristol and Philadelphia, 1994), pp. 1075, £ 120.00, ISBN 0 7503 0287 9 (Two-Volume Set)	141
Climate Change Science: Current Understandings and Uncertainties by Steering Committee of the Climate Change Study (Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, 1995) pp.100, ISBN 0-646-22704-1 Carrie Sonneborn	141
The Sale of Aussat, Report 333 by The Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia Joint Committee of Public Accounts (Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, 1994), pp. xii + 35, A$6.95, ISBN 0 644 35468 2	141
World Telecommunications Development Report 1994 by the International Telecommunication Union (lT V, Geneva, 1994), pp xiv + 174, 160 Swiss Francs, ISBN 92-61-049915	142
Communications Outlook 1995 by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (Committee for Information, Computer and Communications Policy) , (OECD, Paris, 1995), pp. 221, US $83.00, ISBN 92-64-14330-0	142
Connecting You Now…: Telecommunications Towards the Year 2000 by the Senate Economics References Committee (Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia), (Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra. 1995), pp. xxi + 164, A $19.95, ISBN 0-6422449-X	143
Science System: International Benchmarking by the Bureau of Industry Economics, Report 96/2 (Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, 1996), pp. xxiv + 223, ISBN 0-644-46514-X	143
Invisible Eyes: Report on Video Surveillance in the Workplace by the Privacy Committee of New South Wales (Privacy Committee of New South Wales, Sydney, 1995), pp. 132, ISBN 0-7310-64410	143
NEWS	144