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| International Standard Book Number |
0674576632 |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE |
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| Language |
English |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
001.510 |
| Edition number |
19 |
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WIN |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Winston, Brian. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Misunderstanding media / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Brian Winston. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
Cambridge, Mass. : |
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Harvard University Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
1986. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xi, 419 p. : |
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ill. ; |
| Dimensions |
24 cm. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
Includes index. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Title |
1. Breakages Limited 2. Fugitive Pictures 3. ‘Inventions for Casting Up Sums, Very Pretty’ 4. Digression – ‘The Most Remarkable Technology’ 5. Little Bird of Union and Understanding 6. Communicate by Word of Mouth |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
The 1980s saw constant reports of an information revolution. This book, first published in 1986, challenges this view. It argues that the information revolution is an illusion, a rhetorical gambit, an expression of profound historical ignorance, and a movement dedicated to purveying misunderstanding and disseminating disinformation. In this historically based attack on the information revolution, Professor Winston takes a had look at the four central information technologies – telephones, television, computers and satellites. He describes how these technologies were created and diffused, showing that instead of revolution we just have ‘business as usual’. He formulates a ‘law’ of the suppression of radical potential – a law which states that new telecommunication technologies are introduced into society only insofar as their disruptive potential is contained. Despite the so-called information revolution, the major institutions of society remain unchanged, and most of us remain in total ignorance of the history of technology. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Mass media |
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Communication |
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Dewey Decimal Classification |
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General Books |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc |
Bibliography: p. 383-406. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| General subdivision |
Technological innovations |
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History. |
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Technological innovations |
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History. |
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