基本信息
cyberspace, data superhighway, multimedia, for those who have seen the fut ure, and the linking of computers, televisions and telephones will change our lives for ever. yet for all the talks of a forthcoming technological utopia, little attention has been given to the implications of these developments for the poor. as for all the new high technology, the west concerns itself with the “how”, while the question of “for whom” is put aside once agai n. economists are only now realizing the full extent to which the communication revolution has affected the world economy. information technology allows the extension of trade across geographical and industrial boundaries, and transnational corp orations take full advantage of it. terms of trade and excha nge, interest rates and money movements are more important than the prod uction of goods. the electronic economy made by information technology allows the haves to increase their control on global markets — with a destructive impact on the have-nots. for them the result is unstable. developing countries which rely on the production of a small range of goods for export are made to feel like small parts in the international economic mac
