Title: Holding On to Reality
First published: 1999
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.
Subjects: Communication, Computer Technology, Information theory, Nonfiction, Philosophy, Reality, Science, Technology, Information, Théorie de l', Communicatie, Informatie, Filosofische aspecten, Réalité, Sociale aspecten, Philosophie, Communication, philosophy, Information society, Technology and civilization
LC classification: P90 .B638 1999