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Many of us gathered here today have lived through the transition from the industrial age to the information age. Television brings us entertainment, market reports, weather reports, the news, similtaneous transmission of Olympic Games, all-too-simultaneous views of battlefield scenes, and, at least in the United States, much too much advertising. We own personal computers and can buy 50,000 software packages off the shelf. We communicate across continents without knowing if voice and pictures are bounced off satellites, carried over airwaves, over wires or through glass filaments. Not only are our lives immersed in informations, but those of us who are here are engaged in important ways in the functioning of the information age.
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Rogers, R.D. (1985). The Western Information Society. In: Liebaers, H., Haas, W.J., Biervliet, W.E. (eds) New Information Technologies and Libraries. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5452-6_2
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