num_pages: 282
description: Holding On to Reality is a brilliant 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, Borgmann illuminates the relationship between things and signs, between reality and information.
language: English
title: Holding On to Reality: The Nature of Information at the Turn of the Millennium
titlecomplete: Holding On to Reality: The Nature of Information at the Turn of the Millennium
genres: Cultural, Technology, Academic, Philosophy, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 56
publisher: University of Chicago Press