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TechWatch: Technology in Education: Asking the Right Questions

By Albert M. Erisman Schools from the kindergarten level through the university level are rushing to embrace technology in their educational programs. Businesses are aggressively seeking to use technology effectively in educational programs for employee training (see Conversation with Richard Osgood). It’s not hard to understand the reasons for this enthusiasm. Information technology has recently …

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Benchmark Ethics: The Ethics of Mission Control

By David W. Gill A “benchmark ethics” for today’s world of business and technology targets the highest (not the lowest) common denominator set of moral values. In Benchmark Ethics, Issue 1 (“Finding a Common Standard,” IBTE Bulletin, October 1998), I argued that we will recognize such a benchmark ethics when we see it, much the …

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InReview – Issue 2

Theory R Management
by Wayne Alderson and Nancy Alderson McDonnell
Silicon Snake Oil: Second Thoughts on the Information Highway
by Clifford Stoll
Integrity
by Stephen I. Carter

TechWatch: Some Thoughts on Technology and People

Introduction Information has always been recognized as central to business. Financial and marketing information is at the heart of business decisions, regardless of the business. Some businesses have information at the core of their strategy, such as a reservation system for an airline or the insurance business. Information is the key to product improvement for …

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InReview – Issue 1

Leadership is an Art
by Max DePree
Reengineering the Corporation
by Michael Hammer and James Champy
Being Digital
by Nicholas Negroponte
Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology
by Neil Postman
Paradigm Shift: The New Promise of Information Technology
by Don Tapscott and Art Caston
Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences by Edward Tenner