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1 online resource (xviii, 228 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
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Pragmatics & beyond,
0166-6258 ;
V:7
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Pragmatics & beyond ; V:7.
0166-6258
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-228). |
| Contents |
THE SOCIAL SIGNIFICANCE OF TELEMATICS An Essay on the Information Society; Editorial page; Titale page; Copyright page; Table of contents; AUTHOR'S PREFACE; TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE; List of technical abbreviations; INTRODUCTION; 1. THE TECHNICALITIES OF TELEMATICS; 2. THE SOCIAL SIGNIFICANCE OF TELEMATICS; 2.1. The Significance of Technology; 2.2. Technology: The Study of Human Ingenuity in the Pursuit of Chosen Goals; 2.3. Society's Generation of Alternatives; 2.4. The Future is Very Present; 2.5. Technology as Anticipation: Taking Arms against Pure Objectivity. |
| Summary |
The assumption underlying this book is that we are facing a societal transformation, a "silent revolution" in fact, with consequences at least as far reaching as those of the Industrial Revolution. The author of this book wants to intervene in the current discussion about this revolution, a discussion which is normally colored by a resigned determinism maintaining that the transformation will come about all by itself as an automatic consequence of the development of technology. As opposed to this, the author wants to politicize the debate by insisting on the fact that this silent revolution is. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Communication -- Technological innovations.
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Communication -- Technological innovations. |
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Communication -- Social aspects.
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Communication -- Social aspects. |
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Information society.
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Information society. |
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Telematics.
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Telematics. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Title |
Telematics |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Qvortrup, Lars. Social significance of telematics. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1984 (DLC) 85007493 (OCoLC)11972260 |
| ISBN |
9789027280008 (electronic book) |
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9027280002 (electronic book) |
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0915027046 (paperback ; U.S.) |
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9780915027040 (paperback ; U.S.) |
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9027225400 (EUROPEAN) |
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9789027225405 (EUROPEAN) |
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