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Kline (history & ethics of engineering, Cornell Univ.; Consumers in the Country) aims to explain why the modern era is called the information age. However, his argument falls flat. For one thing, the author fails to establish that this is the information age. Many readers would agree with this statement, but the exclusion is strange given the exhaustiveness of the rest of his account. In fact, he hardly mentions the present time period at all until the last chapter. The account begins in the 1940s, wh...Log In or Sign Up to Read More