Holding on to Reality
The Nature of Information at the Turn of the Millennium.
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Word Count
68,500 words, Guess
Page Count
274 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL15490017M
- ISBN-100226066231
- OCLC Control Number39714053
- OCLC Control Numberholdingontoreali00borg
- Library of Congress Control Number98038578
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- LibraryThing194981
- Goodreads704228
Classifications
- LCC
- DDC302.2
- LCCP90 .B638 1999
Description
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.
First Sentence
"Information" is an old word, and the verb "to inform" is older yet.
Description
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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