Since the 1980s, there has been a significant shift in standards activities from traditional standards development organizations (SDOs) to IT consortia. Included among these, for example, have been consortia to develop standards for Switched Multimegabit Data Services (SMDS), Fiber Distributed...

"From the impact of the Industrial Revolution to the emergence of post-modernity, this book assesses the societal transformations since the 1960s. Furthermore, it provides insights into contemporary global complexities, including corporate vulnerabilities, jobless growth sectors, outdated public...