TY - MANSCPT AU - Leer,Anne C. ED - Financial Times. TI - Welcome to the wired world: the new networked economy SN - 0273635603 (pbk.) : PY - 2000/// CY - London PB - Pearson Education KW - Information society KW - Information superhighway KW - Information technology KW - Economic aspects KW - Electronic commerce KW - Business enterprises KW - Computer networks N1 - Visions of the Wired World -- The shrinking planet -- Imagining the future -- Market drivers and key agents of change -- Hype versus reality - guru talk and those great ideas -- The Global Information Infrastructure -- Emerging global systems -- The rise of the Global Information Infrastructure (GII) -- Technology -- The development of media and communications technologies - from Gutenberg to Gates -- Innovation and the rate of change -- Managing technological investments -- The market -- The search for a market and the challenge of sizing it -- The meaning of convergence -- The new evolving market structure -- Redefining the market -- Content -- What content, which customer? -- The trouble with information assets -- The intellectual property system -- Copyright -- Electronic commerce -- Defining electronic commerce -- Trends in, and the value of, e-markets -- Information transactions - tangible versus intangible assets -- The challenge of security -- Cryptography and the role of encryption technology -- Transactional systems for network commerce -- Possible future developments -- The networked economy -- Towards the Knowledge Age -- Human capital and knowledge management -- Barriers to be resolved -- Conditions for market efficiency and potential risk -- Projections of future developments -- Wired organizations -- Challenges and strategic responses of key players -- Publishers in a mixed media environment -- Digital television -- Transforming advertising -- Value creation and changing business models -- Public services -- Reinventing government -- Lifelong learning and the rapid transformation of the education sector -- Global overview of ICT initiatives in education -- The call for public- and private-sector partnerships -- People -- The individual citizen and the Wired World -- The opportunities and impact of teleworking -- Net addiction and other cyberspace side-effects -- The digital divide -- The Global Information Society versus information city states -- Chapter 1 of the Bangemann Report Europe and the global information society: Recommendations to the European Council, 26 May 1994 -- Speech of US Vice President AI Gore at the International Telecommunication Union's first World Telecommunications Development Conference, Buenos Aires, March 1994 -- Speech of US Vice President Al Gore, 15th International ITU Conference, 12 October 1998 N2 - Welcome to the Wired World examines the strategic issues executives need to know to take their business forward in the digital age. It also provides a synthesis of and commentary on the key reports, surveys, compliance and regulatory issues that are shaping commerce in the wired world ER -