چکیده:
The third civilization wave is cliaruclerizcd by the development of information society. In future, a high information availability and knowledge are conceived as prominent accelcrators of economy. Under the third wave, the community of'computer experts understands the nctwork age. The attribute network exprcsses current trends, i.c. e-business, virtual organizations, virtual teams, etc. better than the attribute infoririation’. The year 2000 is often designed as Hoc start of the network age. This papcr shows somc interested features of the current state of Information Technology (IT) that havc consequences for the society in the network age. It explains somc quantitative aspects of the intormaiion explosion (how much lnformation there is in thc world) and shows one its possible consequence. the so-called digital immortality. Increasing significance of” the practice-oriented research as well as thc number of information system problems requiring a long-term research are also mentioned. We also discuss ncw featurcs of the lT profession and achievements in the vision of the so-called intellectual networks.
خلاصه ماشینی:
This papcr shows somc interested features of the current state of Information Technology (IT) that havc consequences for the society in the network age.
Increasing significance of” the practice-oriented research as well as thc number of information system problems requiring a long-term research are also mentioned.
Nctwork Age, Third Wave, Digital lmmorialily, Practice Drivcn Research, Profession IT, Semantic Web INTRODUCTION In the 1950 lFlP Congress Series Gotlieb (l ] compared coinputcrs to the ‘gift of” firc’, likening them to the legend of Prometheus who stole it from the god to give it to man.
The development of IT influences: • the amount of stored digital information • production and use of information • profession of IT • research in arbitrary area The network age influences us whether we like it or not.
This is significant for: • automatic web portals and focused search engines, content filtering and complementing text-based searches • analysis of the entire web and the objective study of relationships within and between communities lt seems that web opens up both fascinating possibilities in its own right and immensely promising and, hitherto, unsuspected possibilities that facilitate information processing that is beyond the traditional solution-to embed a distributed database into Net and use usual web services for getting access lo it.
The future of a (distributed) intellectual network, where knowledge or information creates a new quality on which a ncw socicty or culture has to be based, is undeniable in thc Net and will be distinguished from today's web and its services.