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Author Balbi, Gabriele

Title The Digital Revolution A Short History of an Ideology
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2024

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Description 1 online resource (177 p.)
Contents Cover -- Title -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Understanding the Digital Revolution as an Ideology -- 1 Defining the Revolution: Blessed Uncertainty -- 2 Comparing the Revolution: Past Inheritance, Present Construction -- 3 Thinking About the Revolution: The Mantras -- 4 Believing in the Revolution: A Contemporary Quasi-Religion -- Conclusion: Who Needs the Digital Revolutionand Why Does it Keep Going? -- References -- Index
Summary An investigation into the origins of the digital revolution, how it evolved, which other past revolutions consciously or unconsciously inspired it, which great stories it has conveyed over time, which of its key elements have changed and which ones have persisted and have been repeated in different historical periods
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Internet -- Social aspects.
Technology -- Social aspects.
Information society.
Form Electronic book
Author McClellan-Broussard, Bonnie
ISBN 0198875991
9780198875994