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Communication for a sustainable society

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What would be a sustainable society in the year 2000? What communication facilities would it require? Alternatively, what changes in communications could produce a sustainable society? The prevailing scenarios of an 'information society' and a 'wired world' seem to have followed the second question. They have not defined a sustainable society, but assumed, like the post-industrial theorists, Bell and Kahn, that it would have to be a projection of the main features of post-war social developments. Making this assumption, they have little else to explore but a sort of technical determinism: how new means of communication will transform the factory, the office, the home, etc. The question they have posed is; which developments in communications technology will best enable us to realize, in the shortest time and at least cost, the developmental trends inherent in our societies? The trends most commonly noted are those of maximizing income, maximizing leisure time, maximizing individual choice, and maximizing individual security.

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  • Emery, F. E., 1980. "Communication for a sustainable society," Telecommunications Policy, Elsevier, vol. 4(4), pages 303-307, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:telpol:v:4:y:1980:i:4:p:303-307
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