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According to its proponents, the Information Age is so innovative it is like nothing that has ever happened before. SO why dose much of contemporary society seem depressingly familiar?
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David Bowen, ‘The Future is Virtually Here’, The Independent on Sunday, 15 July 1993, p. 19.
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Calcutt, A. (1999). Innovation/stagnation. In: White Noise. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230373686_9
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