Are the new technologies of the information age reshaping the labor
force, transforming communications, changing the potential of democracy,
and altering the course of history itself? Capitalism and the
Information Age presents a rigorous examination of some of the most
crucial problems and possibilities of these novel technologies.
Not a day goes by that we don't see a news clip, hear a radio report, or
read an article heralding the miraculous new technologies of the
information age. The communication revolution associated with these
technologies is often heralded as the key to a new age of globalization.
How is all of this reshaping the labor force, transforming
communications, changing the potential of democracy, and altering the
course of history itself? Capitalism and the Information Age
presents a rigorous examination of some of the most crucial problems and
possibilities of these novel technologies.