Front Cover; Information Technology Serving Society ; Copyright Page; Dedication; CONTENTS; GUEST SPEAKERS; PARTICIPANTS; SPECIAL OBSERVERS; FOREWORD; CHAPTER 1. INFORMATION TRANSFER IN A GIFTED AGE; Benefits and Risks in this Man-Machine World; A Multi-Dimensional Context; The Need for a National Information Policy -- The Challenge is Apparent; CHAPTER 2. INFORMATION POLICY AND TECHNOLOGY IN TRANSITION; Developments Over Time; Computers and Social Functions; Computerized Data cum Telecommunications; A Parallel Path ... Communications; A Far-flung Network.

Information as a Reproductive OrganismMeeting User Needs; Is This the Best We Can Do?; COMMENTS ON PAPERS OF:; CHAPTER 5. PROVIDING INFORMATION TO THE CONGRESS; Are Better Decisions Possible?; Increasing Complexity of Congress; Information Exchange with Interest Groups; Sources of Information for Congress; New Information Services; CHAPTER 6. DECISION INFORMATION AND THE DECISION-MAKER; Making Decision Information Available; Decision Information and Decision-makers; Information Overload and Synthesis; COMMENTS ON PAPERS OF.

CHAPTER 7. INFORMATION COLLECTION AND PROTECTION: A GOVERNMENTAL DILEMMAGovernment is not a Monolith; Privacy and Information; Security and Information; Contemporary Government Information Interests; Government and the Computer; The Stigma of Surveillance; The Stigma of Information Gathering; CHAPTER 8. INFORMATION SUPPORT FOR CITIZENS: THE ROLE OF TECHNOLOGY; Data Banks and Computers; Video Discs; Telephone and Cable TV; Potential for Diversified Communications and Networking; Two-way Communication in the Home; Challenges of Public Policy; Service to the Community; Other Policy Opportunities.

New Models are NeededCOMMENTS ON PAPERS OF:; CHAPTER 9. LEGISLATIVE INFORMATION NEEDS: DREAMS AND REALITIES; Legislation and Information; Representation and Information; Office of the Future; Legislative Information Technology; The Budget and Information; CHAPTER 10. WHERE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IS TAKING US; Greater Centralization; Greater Government Regulation; Unable to Deal with Multiple Objectives; Greater Participation; TWO SEMINARS IN PERSPECTIVE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SERVING SOCIETY: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE; 1969 and 1977: Five Points of Contrast; An Unfinished Agenda.