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Seeking Security Through Technological Means

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THERE is no issue more critical to our future than that of world peace. There are enough weapons to kill the entire population of the world several times over despite recent moves towards limiting their numbers. The cost of maintaining this system is a tremendous burden for us all. Economically, it prevents the solution of many pressing world problems, while smaller nations are coerced into military alliances they cannot afford and often do not want. Environmentally, the manufacture and replacement of nuclear weapons produces radioactive materials that constitute a serious hazard, while the pervading climate of fear and aggression may be doing permanent psychological damage to young people.

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  1. Institut d’Informatique, Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix, Namur, Belgium

    Jacques Berleur

  2. Faculty of Library and Information Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

    Andrew Clement

  3. British Computer Society, London, UK

    Richard Sizer

  4. London Business School, London, UK

    Diane Whitehouse

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Beardon, C. (1990). Seeking Security Through Technological Means. In: Berleur, J., Clement, A., Sizer, R., Whitehouse, D. (eds) The Information Society: Evolving Landscapes. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-4328-9_14

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