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From the Publisher:Times of the Technoculture, explores the issues surrounding technological change, from the politics of information to questions of culture and identity in cyberspace. The late twentieth century has seen a rapid succession of technological innovations, from the silicon chip to virtual reality and the Internet. Each development has been accompanied by intense public debate, in which anxieties about change and upheaval combine with excitement at the new possibilities for democracy, education and recreation in the 'information society'. But how much faith should we place in technology's ability to improve our lives? In this book, Robins and Webster question whether the new information and communications technologies, such as the Internet, justify the utopian rhetoric with which they are promoted, suggesting, in fact, that they often work to reproduce conservative social practices under a new guise. They also provide a genealogy of new technologies, from the Industrial Revolution and 'the coming of the machine' to the development of mass production in the early twentieth century and today's global network society. Times of the Technoculture shows how the military has influenced the development of the information society, how commercial imperatives have determined its course, and how government has sought to guide its direction.