1. For thoughtful assessments on the political, economic, and technological sources of growing international transparency, see Ann Florini, “The End of Secrecy,” Foreign Policy 111 (Summer 1998): 50–63
2. Walter B. Wriston, “Bits, Bytes, and Diplomacy,” Foreign Affairs 76 (September/October 1997): 172–182.
3. Carl G. O’Berry, “Information Technology: Convergence and Connective Potential,” in Ryan Henry and C. Edward Peartree, eds., The Information Revolution and International Security (Washington, D.C. The CSIS Press, 1998), 148–166
4. and Jeffrey R. Cooper, The Emerging Infosphere: Some Thoughts on Implications of the “Information Revolution” (McLean, VA: Center for Information, Strategy, and Policy, Science Applications International Corporation, August 1997), 32–35.
5. Surveys of key information and communication technologies, past and present, include Derek Leebaert, Technology 2001: The Future of Computing and Communications (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1995)