Effect of New Technology on Information Transfer in the 1990s

Abstract

Information transfer has been and will continue to be affected by developments in information technology. Active areas of research and development today are optical disks, telecommunications, natural language processing, and expert systems. Some of the current and anticipated developments in these areas are described. The impact of these advances on the information-transfer process is explored from the viewpoint of a large industrial generator and user of chemical information. © 1987, American Chemical Society. All rights reserved.