The Social Shaping of Information Superhighways: European and American Roads to the Information Society

Abstract

This is a useful book for students of technological innovation, high tech industries, industrial development, and the Japanese economy. It is effectively argued, well written and lively, and marshals a wealth of facts to support its argument. It is not, however, a scholarly work in the conven tional sense. Johnstone is a journalist who has covered Japanese science, technology, and industry for more than fifteen years. Rather than making use of archival sources, his book relies on more than one hundred inter