The list of links and references that are potentially useful in the quest for lessons learned from the history of printing grows daily. If you spot one of particular interest, plese send it to dewar@rand.org .

History of Printing and its Social Impact

http://orb.rhodes.edu/textbooks/westciv/reformation.html
Home page for ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies.

http://palinurus.english.ucsb.edu/BIBLIO-it-and-academy+historical.html
Home page for Historical Technologies of Information: Orality to Hypertext.

http://www.digitalcentury.com/encyclo/update/print.html
Encylopedia article on the history of printing with a nice list of related resources.

Impact of the Internet

http://www.firstmonday.dk/
Peer-reviewed journal on the Internet.

http://www.parc.xerox.com/istl/members/nunberg/
Home page of Geoffrey Nunberg, editor of The Future of the Book . Has a section on the policy and cultural implications of digital technologies.

http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/
Home page of Philip Agre. Excellent resource for material on the impact of computing in general. Includes Agre's mailing list: The Red Rock Eater News Service whose messages "tend to concern the social and political aspects of computing and networking."

http://www.parc.xerox.com/ops/members/brown/index.html
Index to a series of articles by Paul Duguid and John Seely Brown on learning, working and design. The ideas have been collected into their book, The Social Life of Information , due out in Spring, 2000.

http://www.saffo.org
Home page of Paul Saffo, Director of the Institute for the Future and "a technology forecaster studying long-term information technology trends and their impact on business and society."

http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/esi/index.html
Table of Contents of a report of a workshop on Fostering Research on the Economic and Social Impacts of Information Technology.

http://www.cisp.org/imp/back_issues/back_issues.html
An online magazine "on information impacts" with several dozen articles on impacts.