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- 1. Introduction
- I. Living Systems, Technology, and the Evolution of Control
- 2. Programming and Control: The Essential Life Process
- 3. Evolution of Control: Culture and Society
- II. Industrialization, Processing Speed, and the Crisis of Control
- 4. From Tradition to Rationally: Distributing Control
- 5. Toward Industrialization: Controlling Energy and Speed
- 6. Industrial Revolution and the Crisis of Control
- III. Toward an Information Society: From Control Crisis to Control Revolution
- 7. Revolution in Control of Mass Production and Distribution
- 8. Revolution in Control of Mass Consumption
- 9. Revolution in Generalized Control: Data Processing and Bureaucracy
- 10. Conclusions: Control as Engine of the Information Society
- References
- Index


The Control Revolution
Technological and Economic Origins of the Information Society
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$50.00 • £43.95 • €45.95
ISBN 9780674169869
Publication Date: 03/15/1989