In the Age of the Smart Machine (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Shoshanna Zuboff
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Work: Sociology and social history
- Genres: Nonfiction, History, Sociology
- Subjects: Factories, Power, personal or social, Work or workers, Labor, Sociology, Industry, Information science or systems, Technology, Industrialization, Factory management, Management
Shoshanna Zuboff's topic in this book is the advent of the new technology and the profound social changes which are coming with it. It is not simply a book discussing computers and how they will change people's lives, for it deals with the more general categories of information technology and shifting social relationships. The book's content in many respects will remind readers of Future Shock (1970), The Third Wave (1980), and other such works. Not a popularizer, however, Zuboff sets for herself, in her introduction, a task which is more similar to Fernand Braudel's...
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