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We hear constantly about our current "information revolution." Twenty-four-hour news channels and dizzying Internet technologies bombard us with facts and pictures from around the globe. But what kind of a "revolution" is this? How has information really changed from what it was ten years or ten centuries ago? Albert Borgmann offers some riveting answers to these questions in Holding On to Reality.
Borgmann has written a history of information, from its inception in the natural world to its role in the transformation of culture - in writing and printing, in music and architecture - to the current Internet mania and its attendant assets and liabilities.
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Communication, Computer Technology, Information theory, Nonfiction, Philosophy, Reality, Science, Technology, Information, Théorie de l', Communicatie, Informatie, Filosofische aspecten, Réalité, Sociale aspecten, Philosophie, Communication, philosophy, Information society, Technology and civilizationShowing 5 featured editions. View all 5 editions?
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Holding on to Reality: the Nature of Information at the Turn of the Millennium
2010, University of Chicago Press
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Holding On to Reality: The Nature of Information at the Turn of the Millennium
December 15, 2000, University Of Chicago Press
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Holding on to reality: the nature of information at the turn of the millennium
1999, University of Chicago Press
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""Information" is an old word, and the verb "to inform" is older yet."
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Holding On to Reality is a brilliant history of information, from its inception in the natural world to its role in the transformation of culture to the current Internet mania and is attendant assets and liabilities. Drawing on the history of ideas, the details of information technology, and the boundaries of the human condition, Borgmann illuminates the relationship between things and signs, between reality and information.
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