How technology is changing the way we think: Exploring the implications for society and for the research industry
Sheila KeeganCampbell Keegan, UK
INTRODUCTION
When the British physicist and computer scientist, Tim Berners-Lee, launched the World Wide Web in March 1989, technology took a seismic leap. In twenty years, the world changed in ways we could not then have anticipated, as technologies transformed how we live, communicate and work. The internet is fast becoming the universal medium; the conduit for most of the information that we absorb. Statistics on the use of digital media are out of date even before...