Holding On to Reality - The Nature of Information at the Turn of the Millennium

Albert Borgmann

University of Chicago Press

2000

282 páginas

9h 24m

ISBN-13: 9780226066233

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.