NOTES AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES
- This article is based on a study, elaborated upon the request of the European Economic Commission, and entitled: Higher Education, Industry, and the New Information Technologies (European Institute of Education and Social Policy, Paris, 1984)
- The term ‘university’ will often be used to designate higher education, i.e. post‐secondary or tertiary education as a whole. It is important, however, to bear in mind that a distinction is necessary in this respect just as in other fields. In the other kinds of higher education establishments, the problem of training in the area of NIT's may be posed in diff‐rent terms than for universities, in the strict sense of the word (stricto sensu)
- A graph, based on the same principle, but presented as a pyramid, and referring also to a division between ‘hardware’ training and ‘software’ training, is given in PLOMP, T. Information Technology in Education, a document submitted to the Symposium entitled “Beherschung der Informationstechnik‐Verantwortung der Wissenschaft” ‘(Mastery of Information Technology‐‐The Responsibility of Science)’, University of Oldenburg, 4 May 1984 (duplicated‐xeroxed(
- The scientific director of one of the largest NIT companies in the world told us that whenever he was asked by friends to offer advice as to the choice of careers for their children, he would invariably answer: “anything but informatics”. Paradoxically, the same firm experienced a critical lack of persons with double qualifications in management and in business on one hand, and in NIT, on the other
- An excellent analysis of the factors contributing to the failure of PRESTEL (at least with regard to its first objectives) is made by Eric Arnold in “Information Technology in the Home ‐‐ the Failure of Prestel”, which appeared in ANDERSEN, Bjorn et al., (ed.) Information Society for Richer, for Poorer. North Holland Publishing Company, Amsterdam, New York, Oxford, 1982. This study, accompanied by other studies published in the same volume, were elaborated within the FAST programme of the European Community
- Jacques Salomon , Jean . 1981 . “Prométhée empétré” , (Prometheus Bound), Collection Futuri‐bles 146 Paris : Pergamon Press .