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Article: The Information Society: a Sceptical View.(Book Review)
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- Labour & Industry
- Article date:
- December 1, 2004
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Christopher May, Cambridge, Polity, 2002, xi + 189 pages, 14.99 [pounds sterling] (paperback).
Although there is nothing new about the proclamation of the new, the 1990s seem to have been a particularly hype-ridden decade. One of the most hyped developments has been the birth of the so-called 'information society'. It is difficult to be sure what the information society is, but at the heart of most accounts is the claim that developments in information and communication technologies (ICTs), which allow the instantaneous transmission of information around the globe, have driven a shift towards a global economy in which information, rather than physical resources, ...