The Second Information Revolution

by Gerald W. Brock

Thanks to inexpensive computers and data communications, the speed and volume of human communication are exponentially greater than they were even a quarter-century ago. Not since the advent of the telephone and telegraph in the nineteenth century has information technology changed daily life so radically. We are in the midst of what Gerald Brock calls a second information revolution.

Brock traces the complex history of this revolution,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674011783
• ISBN13: 9780674011786
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.6" x 9.7"