Identity in the Information Society
Observations regarding the history of the study of computer personnel
Proceedings of the 50th annual conference on Computers and People Research
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Today man has in his mortal hands the means to explore the mysteries of the universe. We have the means to fight poverty anywhere on the globe; yet, we are in a world half rich, half poor. Our communications are almost perfect, yet we understand very little of the complex forces that envelop our lives. We live in an age of paradox and continuing crisis. We talk of peace and prepare for war. We move from one temporary expedient to another, rarely catching up with the pace of events. We often function as if we are slaves of events rather than masters of them. We offer habitual obeisance to a system organized by the society and seldom pause to think why we do it.