There are three orders of information: from reality (maps), for reality
(recipes) and, most recently, as reality (recordings). Holding onto Reality,
Albert Borgmann’s superb anecdotal analysis of information for a hype-addled
age, he argues that a balance must be—and is being—struck between
the three orders, offering hope for civics and individual fulfilment away from
the “generally dreary atmosphere that pervades gospels of cyberspace”. Published
by University of Chicago Press, £17.50/$22, ISBN 0226066258.
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