Electronic Communication

Introduction -- Current and Future States of Electronic Communications Technology -- Perspective on Trends in Electronic Communication -- A Quadrillion Geophysical Data Bits Per Year -- Viewdata, Prestel, Teletext: Home TV and Scitel Science Magazine -- Operational Trials of Electronic Information Exchange System (EIES) -- An Overview of the Nature, Purpose and Initial Findings -- Computer Conference on General Systems Theory: One Year's Experience -- Futures Research Group Experience with Computerized Conferencing -- EIES for a Community Involved in R&D of Devices for the Disabled -- A Semi-Visible College: Structural Effects on a Social Networks Group -- Use of Computer Conferencing to Validate and Update NLM's Hepatitis Data Base -- JEDEC/EIES Computer Conferencing for Standardization Activities -- LegiTech/EIES: Information Exchange Among State Legislative Researchers -- The Designer's View -- Social Impacts and Policy Issues of Electronic Communications -- Problems of Accountability in Large Federal Databanks -- Social Change Through Electronic Communications -- Policy Options for the Future: Congress, the FCC and the President