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1. From the Tannhäuser Gate to z8_GND_5296: A Day Trip on the Life-Cycle of Information

verfasst von : Alfons Josef Schuster

Erschienen in: Understanding Information

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Modern-day computer power is a great servant for today’s information hungry society. The increasing pervasiveness of such powerful machinery greatly influences fundamental information processes such as, for instance, the acquisition of information, its storage, manipulation, retrieval, dissemination, or its usage. Information society depends on these fundamental information processes in various ways. This chapter investigates the diverse and dynamic relationship between information society and the fundamental information processes just mentioned from a modern technology perspective.

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Titel: From the Tannhäuser Gate to z8_GND_5296: A Day Trip on the Life-Cycle of Information
verfasst von: Alfons Josef Schuster
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Buch: Understanding Information
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-59089-9

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-59090-5

Copyright-Jahr: 2017
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59090-5_1

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