MATTI POHJOLA
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199243983
- eISBN:
- 9780191697319
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199243983.003.0001
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Development, Growth, and Environmental
While there are large discrepancies between the average incomes of the world's poorest countries in contrast with the world's richest countries, such evidences point out that there are significant ...
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While there are large discrepancies between the average incomes of the world's poorest countries in contrast with the world's richest countries, such evidences point out that there are significant differences in human welfare and in the quality of life experienced by people who come from these different countries. In terms of both the poverty of basic choices and opportunities and that of incomes, about one third of the people in various developing countries are experiencing a great deal of poverty. Considering the importance of both human and physical capital, and other such economic factors, developing and developed countries alike have expressed interest in turning to modern information technology (IT) for improved economic growth. The information revolution is said to be brought about by the decline in information processing prices, the developments in network computing, and the merge of computing technologies with communication, and such will hopefully give rise to an economy with knowledge-based services.Less
While there are large discrepancies between the average incomes of the world's poorest countries in contrast with the world's richest countries, such evidences point out that there are significant differences in human welfare and in the quality of life experienced by people who come from these different countries. In terms of both the poverty of basic choices and opportunities and that of incomes, about one third of the people in various developing countries are experiencing a great deal of poverty. Considering the importance of both human and physical capital, and other such economic factors, developing and developed countries alike have expressed interest in turning to modern information technology (IT) for improved economic growth. The information revolution is said to be brought about by the decline in information processing prices, the developments in network computing, and the merge of computing technologies with communication, and such will hopefully give rise to an economy with knowledge-based services.
Jean-François Blanchette
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- August 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780262017510
- eISBN:
- 9780262301565
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262017510.003.0002
- Subject:
- Information Science, Information Science
This chapter provides an overview of the history of cryptographic technologies, periodized along successive “information ages.” It explains that the development of cryptographic techniques and ...
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This chapter provides an overview of the history of cryptographic technologies, periodized along successive “information ages.” It explains that the development of cryptographic techniques and devices in each period is driven by a dominant information and communication technology, such as telegraph, electromechanical computing, and networked computing. It also highlights the unarticulated dimensions of the cryptographic experience. These include the design trade-offs that seem to perpetually obtain between high-grade security and user-friendliness and the embodiment of cryptographic techniques in physical artifacts.Less
This chapter provides an overview of the history of cryptographic technologies, periodized along successive “information ages.” It explains that the development of cryptographic techniques and devices in each period is driven by a dominant information and communication technology, such as telegraph, electromechanical computing, and networked computing. It also highlights the unarticulated dimensions of the cryptographic experience. These include the design trade-offs that seem to perpetually obtain between high-grade security and user-friendliness and the embodiment of cryptographic techniques in physical artifacts.
