The Computerization of Society

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First published in 1978 as a report to France's president, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, The Computerization of Society became a best-seller abroad and the cause of instantaneous and widespread public discussion. When the Industrial Revolution was beginning, few people realized the importance of what was taking place. The singular importance of this report is that it comes to grips with a similar major technological event, showing how a new technology can reshape society and why the political system has to change to meet the new scale of economic life and the new patterns of social life that result. The authors coined the word télématique (or telematics in English) to describe the growing inter…