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Holding On to Reality: The Nature of Information at the Turn of the Millennium
Albert Borgmann
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| #818099 in Books | 1999-04-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x1.10 x6.00l,1.22 | File type: PDF | 282 pages||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| An alienated and awkward discussion of technology|By Peter|My name is Peter Saarloos, I am a Master's student in Philosophy and Education at the University of Utrecht, and I apologize upfront if my review offends anyone.
Technology and the Character of Contemporary Life (TCCL), Borgmann's previous work, struck a note with me. I have a weak spot for philosophers who a|.com |It's remarkable how far we've traveled into the Information Age without coming up with a very good idea of what information actually is. Technologists define information as bits and bytes, but that seems too precise somehow to get at the heart of the idea
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.
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