Building Blocks of Society - Hardcover

by James W. Cortada (Author)

This book proposes a way to look at the history of information that is relevant to observers in other disciplines and familiar to historians of business, economics, sociology and technology. The author presents that with theoretical and historiographical discussions of what information ecosystems and infrastructures are and their value.

Author Biography

James W. Cortada, Research Fellow at the Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, is the coauthor with William Aspray of Fake News Nation: The Long History of Lies and Misinterpretations and numerous books on computers, information, and technology. His most recent single-authored book, All the Facts: A History of Information in the United States received a "Highly recommended" rating in CHOICE.