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The Control Revolution: Technological and Economic Origins of the Information Society

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The Control Revolution: Technological and Economic Origins of the Information Society - Beniger, James R
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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.

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The Control Revolution: Technological and Economic Origins of the Information Society 1989, Harvard University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780674169869

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The Control Revolution: Technological and Economic Origins of the Information Society, 1986, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA

ISBN-13: 9780674169852

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