Digital Decision Making Back to the Future /

• Main Author: Corrigan, Ray (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London, 2007.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Artificial intelligence.; Education > Data processing.; Computers and civilization.; Computers.; Law and legislation.; Management information systems.; Personal computers.; Computer Science.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Management of Computing and Information Systems.; Legal Aspects of Computing.; Computers and Education.; Computers and Society.; Personal Computing.

Since the general public began to use the Internet in the mid 1990s, there has been a vast amount of investment by governments and commerce in digital communications technologies. There has also been a fair degree of confusion and sometimes controversy about the purpose and effectiveness of such tec...

Table of Contents:

• The battle of the book
• to decision making
• Harry Potter and the full-blooded lawyers
• Infodiversity and the sustainability of our digital ecology
• Canaries in the mine
• Facts, values and agendas
• Technology is just a tool
• DDM in intellectual property
• Experts and ordinary people
• A modest proposal.