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## Optical Communication in the Information Society The era of 1980's sees the merging of telecommunication systems and microprocessor-based computing and control systems in an integrated network serving the new "information society". Both conventional and broadband telecommunication services are becoming available through a network interconnecting telephones, televisions, central and personal computers, and various processing and control instrumentations. Optical fiber communication technology will undoubtedly play a leading role in this coming electronic "information revolution". Transmission and processing of large amount of information (audio, data, video, etc.) will soon become part of our daily life in offices, laboratories, bussiness and public institutions, and eventually our homes. In a fiber-wired society where all forms of information services are readily available, one could envision socio-cultural changes comparable to those resulted from the introduction of great inventions of the past, such as automobiles and jetplanes, telephones and televisions, computers and automated machineries, etc. What are the socio-cultural implications of such information revolution? What a

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Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Published

1981

Field

Engineering (Physical Sciences)