TY  - BOOK
AU  - Qvortrup,Lars
TI  - The social significance of telematics: an essay on the information society 
T2  - Pragmatics & beyond,
SN  - 9789027280008
AV  - P96.T42 Q9 1984eb
U1  - 001.51 22
PY  - 1984///
CY  - Amsterdam, Philadelphia
PB  - J. Benjamins Pub. Co.
KW  - Communication
KW  - Technological innovations
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Information society
KW  - Telematics
KW  - Aspect social
KW  - Technologies de l'information et de la communication
KW  - Société informatisée
KW  - Information
KW  - Innovations
KW  - REFERENCE
KW  - Questions & Answers
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Telecommunicatie
KW  - gtt
KW  - Informatiesystemen
KW  - Sociale aspecten
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-228); 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; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010
N2  - 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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