The Digital Revolution by Gabriele Balbi, Bonnie McClellan-Br... - 9780198875970

The Digital RevolutionA Short History of an Ideology\nAuthor(s): Gabriele Balbi, Bonnie McClellan-Broussard\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Oxford University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Oxford University Press\nISBN-13: 9780198875970, 978-0198875970\nSynopsis\n'A must-read to anyone interested in the digital world.' - Valrie Schafer, Center for Contemporary and Digital History, University of Luxembourg\n\nA concise history of the digital revolution and the lore, rhetoric, and debates that surround it.\n\nThe Digital Revolution aims to tell a story, one of the most powerful ideologies of recent decades: that digitalization constitutes a revolution, a break with the past, a radical change for the human beings who are living through it. The book aims to investigate the origins of this idea, how it evolved, which other past revolutions consciously or unconsciously inspired it, which great stories it has conveyed over time, which of its key elements have changed and which ones have pers.