Abstract:

A few thousand years ago Aristotle said that human beings are a social species. The social scientists of today go further and assert that person-to-person interactions and face-to-face communications are indispensable to human life. The omnipresent information and communication technology (ICT), on the other hand, has the power to disintegrate the conventional human communities into isolated individuals whose contacts and communications are mainly impersonal and unsocial. This paper is an introductory investigation into such influence of ICT and its consequences on human societies.