It goes without saying that the Internet and the Web have the potential to change how organizations work in the most fundamental ways. Technologies, organizations, and administrative practices have always co-evolved. The railroad and the telegraph underpinned the modern business firm, and mainframe computers and satellite communications enabled the rise of the truly global multinational corporation. A modern military would be unthinkable without globe-girdling, space-based sur-are nonetheless vital to the structure, ftincveillance and command and control svs-rion, and goals of government, and ultitems, themselves the offspring of earlier undersea cable systems that tied field commanders and diplomats to headquarters back home.Technology and organizations co-evolve in public bureau-mately to the character and quality of civic life. Interest in the effect of the Internet to revitalize democracy leads many observers to focus on the role of the new technologies on participation and interest group formation and repcracies as well, and although they often lag resentation. While such efforts are impordevelopments in the private sector, they tant, the role of the Internet and the Web
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