READ:

• O'Donnell, Sandra Martin. Programming for the World: a Guide to Internationalization. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: PTR Prentice-Hall, 1994, chap. 2, "A World of Differences," pp. 9-57.

• Japan:
  • Shumpei Kumon "A Japanese Perspective on the Significance of the Information Revolution"
  • The G7 GII Conference report, Nov. 9, 1994
  • Meeting the Challenge of the Coming Information Century
  • Shumpei Kumon "The GII Initiative: Its Significance and the Challenges for Japan"
  • Shumpei Kumon "Information Revolution in the USA" (available in Japanese only)
  • Kumon Reports (available in Japanese only)

• People's Republic of China:
  • Regulations on Safeguarding Computer Information Systems

• South Korea:
  • "Agenda for Action 1995"
  • "The Direction of Korean Information and Communication Policy in 1995" (MIC)
  • "The Korea Infrastructure: Blueprint for Implementation"

• Europe
  • Europe and the Global Information Society

• NII Scan -- Tracking NII policies Worldwide

READ:

• Stephenson, Neal. Snow Crash. New York: Bantam Books, 1992.

  

• Stephenson, Neal. The Diamond Age. New York: Bantam Books, 1995.
• Stephenson, Neal. Spew WIRED (October, 1994) -- this is short fiction
• Snow Crash Cyberspace Book List
• Interview with William Gibson
• An Interview with William Gibson -- [RealAudio format]
• Johnny Mnemonic
• Review of Gibson's book, Virtual Light
• William Gibson
• Cyberpunk

• READ:
  
  • Chapter 2, "'Springtime for Schizophrenia' -- the Assault on Identity" in Mark Slouka, War of the Worlds: Cyberspace and the High-tech Assault on Reality (New York: BasicBooks, 1995), pp. 39-64. (ON RESERVE IN KNIGHT LIBRARY)

• Recommended Readings and Resources:
  
  • The Center for the Study of Online Community

• A Discussion of What it All Means and Where it Seems to be Headed