February 2017
Beginner
352 pages
8h 28m
English
The constant change everyone must live with today makes looking back at something written over fifteen years ago a daunting task. Turning back to a book like The Social Life of Information, which tried to take a snapshot in 2000 of the continuous revolution that is the “age of information,” feels particularly challenging. To intensify our anxiety, we are aware that our revisiting this book coincides with the far more significant fiftieth anniversary of “Moore’s Law.”1 Gordon Moore’s remarkably accurate prediction that the power of computer processing would double roughly every couple of years draws attention to the digital drivers of the age’s ever-changing character. The endurance of ...