Part 1 of Essay
INTRODUCTION: INNOVATION AND DISSEMINATION Social commentators tell us we are in the midst of a technological and information revolution which will change forever many of the traditional ways we communicate and conduct our everyday affairs. But what is the information revolution? How do the new technologies impact on our l ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... are questions of significant and permanent social change seeping into every crevasse of our everyday work and private lives. Many of the issues that are being raised today, and which I will sketch out here, deal with abstract notions about the virtual and `real', about time and space, about `body-less' interactions and communities of learners, and so forth. I hope, however, that I have brought together the diversity of research, current debates and issues in a concrete way that helps adult literacy professionals t ....