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Networks, Failures, Futures and Adaptivity: ICT as ‘Humpty Dumpty’

In: Business Information Technology Management Alternative and Adaptive futures

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  • Mark Stubbs
  • Gareth Griffiths
  • Dave Tucker

Abstract

Increasingly, ICTs are being taken for granted. When their behaviour does not surprise us, we find them unremarkable. It is convenient to treat things this way. Usually, we are not amazed when databases, mobile telephones or Internet browsers link us with the electronic representations of disembodied others. We rarely marvel that these representations have travelled across space and time (from the past into the present) to be with us. It just happens. ICTs have become part of the fabric of society. Admittedly, we struggle to predict what they will be like in the future. But, we find it equally difficult to imagine a future without them.

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  • Mark Stubbs & Gareth Griffiths & Dave Tucker, 2000. "Networks, Failures, Futures and Adaptivity: ICT as ‘Humpty Dumpty’," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Ray Hackney & Dennis Dunn (ed.), Business Information Technology Management Alternative and Adaptive futures, chapter 20, pages 307-314, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-333-97767-5_21
    DOI: 10.1057/9780333977675_21
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