Electronic Communication

Madeline M. Henderson is the recently retired manager of ADP Information Analysis, Institute for Computer Sciences and Technology, National Bureau of Standards. She is a member of advisory committees on library networking and copyright law, chairman of the Joint Board/Council Committee on Copyright of the American Chemical Society, and author of a bimonthly column on copyright for the Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science. She has published numerous articles on information science and technology and library automation. Marcia J. MacNaughton is a senior analyst at the Office of Technology Assessment, U.S. Congress, and has been a consultant to Congress on social impacts of computers and communication technology. She was staff director of the U.S. Senate Government Operations Subcommittee on Privacy and Information Systems and served on the staff of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights. Her primary interests are public law and government and infor­mation technology.

• Introduction -- Current and Future States of Electronic Communications Technology -- Perspective on Trends in Electronic Communication -- A Quadrillion Geophysical Data Bits Per Year -- Viewdata, Prestel, Teletext: Home TV and Scitel Science Magazine -- Operational Trials of Electronic Information Exchange System (EIES) -- An Overview of the Nature, Purpose and Initial Findings -- Computer Conference on General Systems Theory: One Year's Experience -- Futures Research Group Experience with Computerized Conferencing -- EIES for a Community Involved in R&D of Devices for the Disabled -- A Semi-Visible College: Structural Effects on a Social Networks Group -- Use of Computer Conferencing to Validate and Update NLM's Hepatitis Data Base -- JEDEC/EIES Computer Conferencing for Standardization Activities -- LegiTech/EIES: Information Exchange Among State Legislative Researchers -- The Designer's View -- Social Impacts and Policy Issues of Electronic Communications -- Problems of Accountability in Large Federal Databanks -- Social Change Through Electronic Communications -- Policy Options for the Future: Congress, the FCC and the President