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ICT/Cyber benefits and costs: Reconciling competing perspectives on the current and future balance

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  • Hughes, Barry B.
  • Bohl, David
  • Irfan, Mohammod
  • Margolese-Malin, Eli
  • Solórzano, José R.

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Information and communications technology (ICT)/cyber technologies become ever-more embedded in our economies and societies, bringing both benefits and risk-related costs. The balance between those benefits and costs, over time and across countries, remains poorly understood. This gives rise to conflicting narratives about the future of ICT: either (1) continued rapid benefit growth with new waves of ICT technology; or (2) increasing cyber-attack costs will come to swamp benefits.

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  • Hughes, Barry B. & Bohl, David & Irfan, Mohammod & Margolese-Malin, Eli & Solórzano, José R., 2017. "ICT/Cyber benefits and costs: Reconciling competing perspectives on the current and future balance," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 115(C), pages 117-130.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:tefoso:v:115:y:2017:i:c:p:117-130
    DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2016.09.027
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