The Control Revolution: Technological and Economic Origins of the Information Society Beniger James R.
Why do we find ourselves living in an Information Society? And why is this change recent--or is it?James Beniger traces the origin of the Information Society to major economic and business crises of the past century. How did the collection, processing, and communication of inform… Celý popis ↓
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The Control Revolution: Technological and Economic Origins of the Information Society Beniger James R.
Why do we find ourselves living in an Information Society? And why is this change recent--or is it?James Beniger traces the origin of the Information Society to major economic and business crises of the past century. How did the collection, processing, and communication of information come to play an increasingly important role in advanced industrial countries relative to the roles of matter and energy?
Scores of problems arose: fatal train wrecks, misplacement of freight cars for months at a time, loss of shipments, inability to maintain high rates of inventory turnover. In the United States, applications of steam power in the early 1800s brought a dramatic rise in the speed, volume, and complexity of industrial processes, making them difficult to control. Inevitably the Industrial Revolution, with its ballooning use of energy to drive material processes, required a
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