New technologies and development : science and technology as factors of change : impact of recent and foreseeable scientific and technological progress on the evolution of societies, especially in the developing countries / edited by Ann Johnston and Albert Sasson.

Indhold: Introduction : science, technology and society ; Information technologies and telecommunication ; Biotechnologies in farming and food systems ; Health care technologies and health care delivery systems ; New energy technologies and systems ; Technological advance and educational change (Impact of information technologies on the educational process in the industrialized countries ; New technologies, education and the developing countries).