Fred Polak

Person · Open Library

Works

6

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Group

Origin

United Kingdom

Active from

1996-05

Active to

2003

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Perceived Usefulness, Perceived Ease of Use, and User Acceptance of Information Technology

   · 1989 · cited 43,586x

2. Colorimetric Method for Determination of Sugars and Related Substances

   · 1956 · cited 41,924x

3. Social Identity Theory and the Organization

   · 1989 · cited 31,517x

4. User Acceptance of Information Technology: Toward A Unified View1

   · 2003 · cited 29,797x

5. User Acceptance of Computer Technology: A Comparison of Two Theoretical Models

   · 1989 · cited 16,100x

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Quotes

• “Modern technology could advance to the point at which social engineers would be true masters of a complete conformist society which could no longer distinguished from a mass concentration camp. We might ultimately be directed by a superstructure of intelligent machines... Revolutionary changes in the next 30 years would be farther-reaching that many over the past 3.000 years.”
• “My own philosophical position, if I may put it that way, is very briefly as follows:”
• “All kinds of separate, fragmented portions of the jigsaw puzzle are of little avail, unless they are fitted together in the best possible way, to form an image of the future depicting a number of main areas of development.”
• “Every great thinker who has concerned himself with the historical process has speculated about the meaning of time and its flow in history. Marx, Hegel, Spengler, Toynbee, and Sorokin, each with his own variation on the theme of time-flow as mechanically patterned fluctuation, predict the future but ignore its dynamic interaction with the past and the present.”
• “Social change will be viewed as a push-pull process in which a Society is at once pulled forward by its own magnetic images of an idealized future and pushed from behind by its realized past.”
• “Once he (man) became conscious of creating images of the future, he became a participant in the process of creating this future.”

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Wikidata facts

Image

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Number of children

3

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