The Control Revolution

Technological and Economic Origins of the Information Society

Auteurs

James R. Beniger

Boekbeoordeling

4,2(96)Tarief

Parameters

524bladzijden
19uren

Filosofie
Geschiedenis
Non-fictie
Ondernemerschap en Economie
Sociale Wetenschappen

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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.