The medium is the message

摘要

Information is the paradigm of our time. Economies that once manufactured goods now create value by processing information. Global flows of money, ideas and news determine which countries engage with global society and which are left silently on the sidelines. A skein of pervasive mobile computing keeps us connected - instantly, continuously, incessantly. James Gleick's latest book, The Information, examines the genesis of the information society and the roots and consequences of information theory.