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DIARY: September 10, 1995 11:45 AM Sunday; Rod Welch

Received support for notion of New World Order from technology.

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New World Order

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0404 - Summary/Objective
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040501 - Follow up ref SDS 19 5830, ref SDS 13 HU57.
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040503 - Continued work on defining concept of a New World Order based on
040504 - technology that increases the speed of information that overwhelms
040505 - human faculties for converting information into knowledge.
040506 -
040507 - There is a program on CNN today televised from Aspen, CO, that is a
040508 - seminar on
040509 -
040510 -                    Technology's Impact on Society
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040513 - This was one of those assemblages of prominent thinkers seated around
040514 - a long continuous table in the shape of a rectangle.  Everyone was
040515 - president of some institute.  They used the phrase:
040516 -
040517 -                           New World Order
040518 -
040519 -     ...to describe the Information Highway, Information Revolution,
040520 -     Cyberspace.
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040523 - Michael Roschild, president, Bionomics Institute, explained his
040524 - view that the microprocessor creates a new kind of "space" that
040525 - enables new "organisms to take root, grow and create new kinds of
040526 - relationships among people.  He feels greater emphasis on education is
040527 - needed to equalize the chance for people to use the opportunities
040528 - offered by the Information Highway.
040529 -
040530 - Alvin Toffler cites a concern about conflict between societies that
040531 - use computers (information based) and those who still manufacture and
040532 - those who rely on agriculture, i.e., third world.  He sees turbulence
040533 - among societies due to imbalances in the use of computers.
040534 -
040535 -      [Toffler's ideas are reviewed from an article at ref SDS 23 line
040536 -      93
040537 - ..
040538 - No one mentions anything about converting information into
040539 - knowledge.
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040541 - Example of information overload is at ref SDS 24 line 102.
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