October 2001
Intermediate to advanced
320 pages
6h 33m
English
Meanwhile, in spite of continual growth in the individual leader's power, throughout the centuries small amounts of knowledge were gradually diffusing outward and downward, primarily as the result of advances in communications, which provided access to greater and greater numbers of people. Today the recent, sudden, and unprecedented explosion of information technology has radically altered the situation. Evolution has become revolution. The massive increase in individual empowerment made possible over the last decade, first by telecommunications and then by computing, has had a centrifugal, fragmenting influence. This has been reflected in the breakdown of political blocs, the erosion of confidence ...
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