ABSTRACT
This is the information society. The world’s knowledge base has doubled twice during the twentieth century and continues to increase geometrically (Cornish, 1986). Business and industry leaders forecast that current data informational systems will be replaced by “. … sophisticated devices for knowledge creation, capture, transfer, and use” (Dede, 1989, p. 23). New ways of storing and accessing data make it possible to use information in all types of decision-making activities. In fact, information and the ability to use information have become a strategic resource of the society (McClune, 1985).
