High-tech Society - Hardcover

Forester, Tom

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0631136517 ISBN 13: 9780631136514

Publisher: Blackwell Publishers, 1987

Synopsis

320p cloth with blue dustjacket, from a Cambridge college library, pages unmarked, very good condition

About this title

About the Author

Tom Forester is a Lecturer in the, Division of Science and Technology at Griffith University in Australia. He is editor of The The Microelectronics Revolution and The Information Technology Revolution and author of High Tech Society.

Review

As in his earlier, edited volumes on the microelectronic and information technology revolutions, once again Tom Forester has demonstrated his ability to understand and write about those issues that most concern us about high-tech society. Here his subjects are personal computing, semiconductor technology, telecommunications, and the way they affect our home and our workplace. His easy, popular style brings clarity, without intellectual compromise, to these complex technical and economic issues.

(William Aspray, Associate Director, Charles Babbage Institute)

After the breathless enthusiasm for the first years of the IT revolution, it is time for cooler analysis of the emerging high-tech society. What is shaping the new technologies, what directions are technological change taking, where is this taking us? Tom Forrester's book is a lucid approach to these issues. He manages to demystify the technology and survey its applications and implications while conveying the sense of excitement that characterizes the forefront of high-tech activity. At last the new technology has found a popular writer who avoids hyperbole and prophecy.

(Ian Miles, Senior Fellow, Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex)

About this edition

• Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0631136517
• ISBN 13: 9780631136514
• Binding: Hardcover