Nayan B. Ruparelia
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780262529099
- eISBN:
- 9780262334129
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262529099.003.0012
- Subject:
- Computer Science, Programming Languages
This chapter discusses some economic, moral, and social issues that technology, IT, and especially cloud computing bring up. Many of these issues are intractable, and this chapter’s objective is to ...
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This chapter discusses some economic, moral, and social issues that technology, IT, and especially cloud computing bring up. Many of these issues are intractable, and this chapter’s objective is to inform you of the role that technology is playing in shaping our society and world. In particular, the following topics are outlined: tool for democracy; the rich-poor gap; personal information and security; productivity; business scalability.Less
This chapter discusses some economic, moral, and social issues that technology, IT, and especially cloud computing bring up. Many of these issues are intractable, and this chapter’s objective is to inform you of the role that technology is playing in shaping our society and world. In particular, the following topics are outlined: tool for democracy; the rich-poor gap; personal information and security; productivity; business scalability.
