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Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Cyber-activists dedicated to the vision of the Internet as an open,
democratic medium of human communication. Comprehensive links relating to
cyber-cultures, policy & legal issues, online activism, and much more. |
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Dushkin/McGraw-Hill
- Homepage for your Annual Editions Computers in Society text, with
related links for each section of the reader. |
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Cyberreader 2nd Edition,
ed. Victor Vitanza. The companion web-page for your course text, with
comprehensive links related to each chapter of the book. |
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Wired Magazine
- The companion web-site to the magazine, containing articles and links concerning
IT-related social, political and cultural issues, the IT industry, products
and reviews. Site links to Hotwired (IT-related news) and WebMonkey (targeted
at technologically-savvy web users & programmers). |
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Office of Information Technology - IT Policy On-Ramp
- Federal government site, housed within the General Services
Administration, devoted to federal policy initiatives relating to
information technology |
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Center for Democracy & Technology -
A non-profit
organization dedicated to the preservation of "democratic values and
constitutional liberties in the digital age". |
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Social Informatics Home Page -
A site dedicated to the emerging field of social informatics, the study of
IT within its social context. |
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Association for Information Systems - ISWorld Net
- Links related to IT professions, degree programs, and resources for
professionals. |
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I, Cringely
- Columnist and IT- industry gadfly Robert Cringely takes on anyone and
everything relating to computers, the internet, and the future of the IT
industry. |
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PC Magazine
- Online articles, opinion columns, product reviews, and industry
trends. |
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The Silicon Valley Cultures Project
- The SVCP is "a ten year ethnographic study of the cultures living and working in the hi-tech communities of
Silicon Valley... that is attempting to understand Silicon Valley as a
culture area. This region is a laboratory for
research into high technology communities due
to its robust and varied industrial base, the use of information technologies, organizational
innovations, and its broad cultural diversity." |
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Xerox PARC - Palo Alto Research Center
- Website of the pioneering Silicon Valley research facility and think tank;
contains overviews of current research projects into cutting-edge
technologies. Link to "Letter to a Young Researcher" consists of a
Shockwave presentation of the workplace "culture" of Xerox PARC. |
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Institute for the Future (Menlo Park, CA)
- Non-profit
research firm specializing in the impacts of next-generation technologies on
society and business. |
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Red Herring - The Business of Technology
-Technology business news, analysis, and research. |
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Ziff Davis' The Next 20 Years
- IT industry insiders and researchers engage in a multi-city "tour"
in which future trends in information technology are discussed largely from
techno-optimist, futurist perspectives. From the site overview: "The Next 20 Years series is an industry insiders' preview of the future.
TNTY '99 will again invite noted futurists, scientists, and technology visionaries to join with key new media executives to debate and imagine the look of technology in the next 20 years." |
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Slashdot - New for Nerds. Stuff that matters.
- Contains
industry news, technical trends for, well, nerds, a.k.a. computer geeks. |
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Techies.com -
From the Twin Cities Business Monthly comes this description: "the location to connect
technology professionals with employers. For a fee, employers can sign on
and advertise open positions. Job-seekers, on the other hand, get unlimited
access to job listings, online job fairs, career advice, tales for the IT trenches,
and more." |
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Investec Guinness Flight -
IT-oriented mutual funds management company, featuring a variety of global
technology funds (including a "Wired Index Fund"), market research
reports, and more. |
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fatbrain.com - Online bookstore
which aspires to be the Amazon.com of the information technology
professions, "specializing in professional books, interactive training,
and certification." |