Conferência do mês.
Instituto de Estudos Avançados da USP
17 de setembro de 1999, às 10:00 horas
Av. Prof. Luciano Gualberto, Travessa J, 374, térreo, sala 15, Cidade
Universitária, São Paulo.
A palestra será proferida em inglês.
The Internet is often described as an engine of globalization that knocks down borders and imposes market democracy on every nation. As Internet becomes integrated into the practices of businesses, governments, and social movements, it is becoming possible to define what such a wild claim might mean. Some of the necessary ideas derive from the economic aspects of information technology. Others concern the place of information in social change. Most importantly, the very idea that the Internet changes things is itself wrong. Although the Internet is largely a positive development, technology alone does not change economic and political systems, much less ensure that they work right. Much more is required: a sprawling system of infrastructures and institutions. Infrastructures and institutions powerfully shape social life, but they also tend to become invisible. As a result, people in a country like the United States can be wildly mistaken about the nature of their own society, and they can be dangerously misguided in their prescriptions for other countries. Reality is more complicated.
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