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We have demonstrated that microelectronics has the potential to alter substantially both the quantity and the quality of work that is offered; but, as has already been cautioned, when we say it can do such a thing, this is merely a linguistic shorthand. We have seen that the way information technology develops, how it is used, and what it is used for, are all the result of essentially social, not technological, processes and relationships.

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? T.S. Eliot, The Rock (1934)

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Baldry, C. (1988). Theories of The Information Society. In: Computers, Jobs, and Skills. Approaches to Information Technology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1039-6_7

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