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Science Technology and the Economic Future edited by Susan Raymond
Technology, as both the pathway and the content of global trade, quickens the pace of economic exchange, broadens the industrial base of goods and services, and blurs previously sharp economic and geographic boundaries. Technology knits the globe together. Some 13.5 million people have access to the Internet. A new site is registered on the Internet at the rate of one every two minutes of the business day. Between 1980 and 1992, the world's civil aviation system nearly doubled its total international kilometers flown, and now carries over 300 million passengers and 142 million tons of cargo on international flights each year. The electronic system for interbank payments processes $2 trillion in bank-to-bank transactions each day. But technology can also be the source of debate and dispute that pulls at the seams of global relationships. Trade disputes, human rights issues, privacy and secrecy interests— all increasingly pivot on technology and innovation. The essays that follow discuss these issues around the world.
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