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Saturday, December 28, 2002
The ICT Infrastructure: A Driver of Change - Richard N. Katz
In making the observation that “the medium is the message,” Marshall McLuhan anticipated Clayton Christensen’s characterization of communication and information systems as potentially “disruptive” Technologies.1 Profound and rapid changes in technologies often disrupt and even transform the environments in which they are introduced, in ways that are both intended and unintended. Thus, the information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure is likely to influence and even shape the nature of higher education institutions and the practices of faculty and administrators. As Martin Trow has explained: “Information technology (IT) is embedded in, and used by, institutions that have a history. . . . IT will cut its own channels, leading to the creation of institutions that differ from those of today; institutions where the weight of history does not condition and constrain IT’s use.”
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