THE IMPACT OF ICT REVOLUTION IN TURKEY: TUNNELING THROUGH BARRIERS

Year 2001, Volume: 6 Issue: 1, 0 - 0, 01.05.2001

Namik K Pak

Abstract

We are all living in a changing world. And, over the years, particularly over the past few, we have been conditioned to acclaim the catchy term 'globalisation'. But deep inside, many of us have come to harbour reservations about the sweeping changes the process entails. The idea of unimpeded contact between the peoples of this very special globe, the only biosphere we so far know of, sounds good. But, along with it, different sounds have come. For instance, protests of hunger, from societies unable to handle the scope and speed of changes forced on them. It was not only investments, loans or consumer goods which flowed in from opened borders. In many instances, what came in were machines of destruction. Some of these were barely clothed bodies brandishing machetes. Some were state-of-the-art weapons designed and produced for wholesale butchery. Thousands upon thousands hungry for technology from the industrialised world saw it only in the lethality of the weapons they were sold or were confronted with.

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