Section 1: Ethics -- The Ethics of Computing? -- Section 2: Roots, Legitimacy and Ideology -- Some Historical Remarks -- The Question of the Legitimacy of the Computer: An Epistemological Point of View -- Computerization Movements and the Mobilization of Support for Computing -- Section 3: Towards New Cultural Perspectives? -- The Cultural Scenery of Information Technology: An Introduction -- Information Technology in Daily Life: An Assessment of the Full Integration Hypothesis -- Towards a New Balance in Our Landscapes -- Society, Religions and Information Technology -- Style as Substance in Educational Computing -- Communication of Knowledge in an Information Society -- Section 4: Politics -- The Political Implications of Information Technology: Challenge To Power? -- Information Technology and Civil Liberties -- Computers and Democracy -- Seeking Security Through Technological Means -- Section 5: Economics -- Information in the Economy -- Information Technology, and the Global Economy -- Growth, Productivity and Innovation: Theories and Facts -- Computers and Organizations -- Human Resources and the Working World -- Comments on "Human Resources and the Working World" -- Women Employment and Information Technology: A View from the United Kingdom -- Women Employment and Information Technology: A View from the Netherlands -- Computers and Developing Countries -- Section 6: Artificial Intelligence, Human Mind and Image of Reality -- Recent Technical Developments: Attitudes and Paradigms -- Model, Representation and Reality -- The Distortion of Information -- Information and Human Mind -- Epilogue -- Appendices -- Contributors Addresses -- Author Index.