[Air-l] Down to the Wire

[Nafus, Dawn]

It reminded me also of this excellent book:

Downey, Gary Lee. 1998. The Machine in Me: An Anthropologist Sits Among
Computer Engineers. New York and London: Routledge.

Here he addresses constructs of national competitiveness (at the time
also with Japan in mind) and how self-legitimising talk of growth and
productivity obscured the uncertainties of the supposed benefits of new
technologies (then CAD/CAM).

For the economists amongst you: how do you think the consultant in the
article derived a possible 1.2 million new jobs and $500 billion to the
economy from the widespread adoption of broadband?  How does such an
analysis work?



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Poor
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I hope we've all read Mosco's "The Digital Sublime" and Hughes' 
"Human-Built World". (Why we think "better tech = better life".)

Meanwhile, I'm still waiting for my flying car...

On May 3, 2005, at 2:36 AM, Ellis Godard wrote:

> Eh... Is there good data (heck, *any* data) that broadband increases
> growth, productivity, or quality of life?
>
> -eg
>
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>> Down to the Wire
>> http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20050501faessay84311/thomas-bleh
> a/down-to-the-wire.html
>
> Summary: Once a leader in Internet innovation, the
> United States has fallen far behind Japan and other
> Asian states in deploying broadband and the latest
> mobile-phone technology. This lag will cost it dearly.
> By outdoing the United States, Japan and its neighbors
> are positioning themselves to be the first states to
> reap the benefits of the broadband era: economic
> growth, increased productivity, and a better quality
> of life.
>
>
>
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> Miraj Khaled
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