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Here is an interesting site concerned with women, war and peace. It gives valuable data on background informations and consequential

conditions they find themsevles in after civil wars.

 

Good source of reference for those who are doing development studies, especially gender equality.

 

Somali women, war and peace

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The Information Society

Complexity and Information Overload in Society: why increasing efficiency leads to decreasing control

 

Francis HEYLIGHEN

 

CLEA, Free University of Brussels, Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium

 

ABSTRACT. It is argued that social and technological evolution is characterized

by ephemeralization, an accelerating increase in the efficiency of all material,

energetic and informational processes. This leads to the practical disappearance of

the constraints of space, time, matter and energy, and thus spectaculary increases our

power to physically solve problems. However, the accompanying “lubrication” or

reduction of friction in all processes creates a number of non-physical problems,

characterized by the increasing instability, complexity and reach of causal networks,

and therefore decreasing controllability and predictability. As a result, individuals

are forced to consider more information and opportunities than they can effectively

process. This information overload is made worse by “data smog”, the proliferation

of low quality information because of easy publication. It leads to anxiety, stress,

alienation, and potentially dangerous errors of judgment. Moreover, it holds back

overall economic productivity.

 

Further reading...click here please

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