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

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.

• | By (Author): James R. Beniger (Author)
• | Publisher: Harvard University Press
• | Publication Date: Mar 15, 1989
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 508 pages
• | Language: NULL
• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-10: 0674169867
• | ISBN-13: 9780674169869