Dieser Aufsatz beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, wie weit der Weg der neuen Bundesländer in die Informationsgesellschaft fortgeschritten ist. Dabei wird auf zwei Aspekte im besonderen eingegangen. Einmal wird die Telekommunikationsinfrastruktur, also die Information-Superhighways betrachtet, zum...

It is a main issue of this paper that capital of ICT (Information Communication Technology) in many industries and companies is not clear about whether it affected corporate management. We have been studying on this issue since 1996 and published several papers in some scholarly journals. But it...

With the development of the microprocessor, the electronics sector has become regarded as a key technological sector in the OECD countries. Massive government intervention programs have been designed, not only for the production of these integrated circuits, but also for their incorporation into...

All known examples of life belong to the same biology, but there is increasing enthusiasm among astronomers, astrobiologists, and synthetic biologists that other forms of life may soon be discovered or synthesized. This enthusiasm should be tempered by the fact that the probability for life to...