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The Control Revolution

Technological and Economic Origins of the Information Society

Authors

James R. Beniger

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524 pages
19 hours of reading

Business & Management
Historical Themes
History
Non-Fiction
Social Sciences

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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.