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This book is a 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, the book illuminates the relationship between things and signs, between reality and information.
Keywords: information, natural world, cultural transformation, Internet mania, history of ideas, human condition, information technology, reality
Print publication date: 1999 | Print ISBN-13: 9780226066257 |
Published to Chicago Scholarship Online: March 2013 | DOI:10.7208/chicago/9780226066226.001.0001 |
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