The Control Revolution: Technological and Economic Origins of the Information Society

Abstract

1. Introduction PART I: Living Systems, Technology, and the Evolution of Control 2. Programming and Control: The Essential Life Process 3. Evolution of Control: Culture and Society PART II: Industrialization, Processing Speed, and the Crisis of control 4. From tradition to rationally: Distributing Control 5. Toward Industrialization: Controlling Energy and Speed 6. Industrial Revolution and the Crisis of Control PART III: Toward an Information Society: From Control Crisis to Control Revolution 7. Revolution in Control of Mass Production and Distribution 8. Revolution in Control of Mass Consumption 9. Revolution in Generalized Control: Data Processing and Bureaucracy 10. Conclusions: Control as Engine of the Information Society References Index