Rapid progress in information technologies has produced an   ever-broadening array of choices in information products. At the same   time, it has caused historically segmented industries, such as   television, telephones, computers, and print media, to converge and   compete. The result is a cornucopia of products and potential in   communications along with enormous strain on the governmental   institutions that use and regulate information technology.      The   essays in this book provide a broad look at the many ways that   information technology relates to issues of governance and public   policy. Adjusting regulatory instititions to the new technical   realities is a great challenge. Will monopoly power threaten the   traditionally regulated areas of telephones and cable television or the   software systems that integrate all information technologies into a   single system with many competing players? Can traditional approaches   to intellectual property rights and control of socially harmful content   be applied to the converged information sector? This book sheds light   on these issues, and in so doing demonstrates the usefulness of   rigorous, multidisciplinary policy analysis in assessing the   significance of changing technology.

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