Holding On to Reality

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.

Year

1999

Language

English

Publisher

University Of Chicago Press

Editions

2

Pages

282

ISBN

9780226066233

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