No Safety in Numbers

Résumé du livre

With "No Safety in Numbers" Henry J. Perkinson completes this three-volume analysis of the effects that media of communication have had on the history of western culture. (The first two volumes of this historical study are "Getting Better : Television and Moral Progress" (1991), and "How Things Got Better : Speech, Writing, Printing, and Cultural Change" (1995).) This book explains how the computer has transformed our present political, economic, social and intellectual arrangements. By helping us recognize risks we were not aware of before, the computer has enabled us to become more healthy, more wealthy, and more wise. But our current attempts to eliminate all risks may now threaten our capacity for continual cultural growth.