Lucky R
Telcordia Technologies.
Science. 2000 Jul 14;289(5477):259-64. doi: 10.1126/science.289.5477.259.
In this month's essay, Robert Lucky examines the central sociological impacts that communications technologies have had on the way science is done as well as the critical influences science has had in the evolution of communications technology. He traces the evolution of today's infrastructure for research and collaboration in science via the Internet and the World Wide Web back to the invention of the telegraph, which first freed the flow of information from its reliance on the physical means of transportation and allowed communication to occur in real time. According to Lucky, the remaining technical hurdles in providing unlimited bandwidth are relatively simple to overcome compared with the sociotechnical engineering required to improve the three dimensions of communications--human to information, human to human, and human to computer.
在本月的文章中，罗伯特·拉基探讨了通信技术对科学研究方式产生的核心社会学影响，以及科学在通信技术发展过程中所起的关键作用。他追溯了当今通过互联网和万维网进行科学研究与合作的基础设施的演变历程，一直回溯到电报的发明，电报首次使信息流摆脱了对物理运输方式的依赖，并实现了实时通信。拉基认为，与改善通信的三个维度——人对信息、人对人以及人对计算机——所需的社会技术工程相比，提供无限带宽时剩下的技术障碍相对容易克服。
