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Information technology
Derived node: assembled mechanically from the claims carrying information-technology. A roster, not an adjudicated definition.
Every claim under this term
- 3782192-028 : Advances in information technology explain each historical leap in organizational efficiency and reach, from kinship tribes through nation states to the emerging global society.
- 3782192-031 : Western democracies still run on structures developed decades or centuries ago and have no formal interaction with the new data stream produced by modern information technology.
- 3782193-005 : Imperial China invented the printing press and applied it to centralize power through uniform edicts and the first printed money; the resulting bureaucratic rigidity left the hierarchy unable to respo
- 3782193-006 : Europe, unlike Imperial China, used the printing press to decentralize knowledge rather than to centralize power, and this different application of the same information technology produced a cultural
- 3782193-033 : Reputation permits business with any member of a network regardless of personal acquaintance, but only if the network is closed and its size is limited by the ability to police reputation with the ava
- 3782214-038 : Direct democracy failed to reflect the will of the group once villages grew into cities, because the information technology of the spoken word imposes a hard limit on how many people can speak and on