Impacts on Communities: Comments on Sclove and Scheuer Sara Baase San Diego State University baase@saturn.sdsu,edu W⢠I1 electronic commerce force changes on communi ies that no one wants? Will electronic communica ion erode family and community life to the point that people mourn the loss of depth and meaning in their lives? Richard Sclove and Jeffrey Scheuer think so. In their article "On the Road Again? If Information Highways Are Anything like Interstate Highways Watch Out!" Sclove and Scheuer describe their worries about the impact of electronic communications on face- to-face interactions and the vibrancy of communities. They use the history and impact of the interstate highway system as an analogy, or "cautionary tale." One of their main themes is that the highway system caused (and the "information highway"1 will cause) changes that are "involuntary" and that virtually no one wants. In particular, they use the example of a Wal-Mart store draining business from downtown shops, resulting in the decline of the downtown community, a "result that no consumers wanted or intended." They generalize from the Wal-Mart scenario and warn that as cyberspace is commercialized and we conduct more economic transactions electronically, we will lose more local stores,
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Impacts on communities: comments on Sclove and Scheuer
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Association for Computing Machinery – Dec 1, 1997
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