The Control Revolution

Technological and Economic Origins of the Information Society

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James R. Beniger

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524 Seiten
19 Lesestunden

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Beniger traces the origin of the Information Society to major economic and business crises of the 1800s. Inevitably the Industrial Revolution, with its ballooning use of energy to drive material processes, required a corresponding growth in the exploitation of information.