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Journals ACM SIGCAS Computers and Society Volume 28 Issue 4

reetings from your new book review editor. I feel pleased to have taken over from Paul de Palma, whom I've known (in the virtual sense) for a few years now. I hope to continue the book review section as a forum where some of the many books that appear under the general purview of Computers and Society can be explored. I will be soliciting new books for review from various publishers, and as these become available, posting the books for review on my website (see URL at right). Readers are also encouraged to suggest other book titles for review (by themselves or by other C&S readers). Given the sheer increase in books concerning the social, policy and ethical aspects of computing, we will only be able to review a few each month. This month I am pleased to offer you three reviews: Tom Elyse reviews The Gordian Knot: Political Gridlock on the InJ~rmation Highway, by Russell Neuman, Lee McKnight and Richard Jay Soloman. Ronan Kennedy reviews Richard Simon's Models of my Li]9 and ACM's collection, Be- G Book Review Editor's Message Leslie Regan Shade http.'//aixl. uottawa,ca/~shade yond Calculation: The Next Foqy Dars of Computing. Enjoy! f, like me, you've ever sat hunched uncomfortably over your knees struggling .for what seemed like hours trying to untie that contentious knot in your shoelace, then you relate with pleasure to the legendary tale of the Gordian Knot, which tells of Alexander the Great's bold and highly effective resolution of King Gordius' challenge to unravel his tangled knot of rope and thereby qualify to rule all of ancient Persia - - one swift stroke of his sword, and no more knot! The authors have appropriated this powerful image from the annals of early civilization to characterize the state of affairs in contemporary society with regard to the ongoing technology advances of the telecommunications industry. The political gridlock referenced in the subtitle is between those who favor government regulation and those who support free market economics as the preferred means of progress. In their view, the contents of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 reflect an unsatisfactory mix of regulatory goals and free market endorsements which they argue will produce not progress but stalemate. Refusing to take sides in this classic debate of ideologies which has produced their Gordian knot of tangled policy initiatives, the authors propose instead an Alexandrian bold stroke, a paradigm shift in policy direction they entitle "Open I The Gordian Knot: Political Gridlock on the Information Highway. By W. Russell Neuman, Lee McKnight, and Richard Jay Soloman. MIT Press, 1997. ISBN 0262140616 Reviewed by." 7brn Elyse torn_e&se@ibm,net Computers and Society, December 1998

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Book review: The Gordian Knot: Political Gridlock on the Information Highway. By W. Russell Neuman, Lee McKnight, and Richard Jay

Elyse, Tom
ACM SIGCAS Computers and Society , Volume 28 (4)
Association for Computing Machinery – Dec 1, 1998

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