Includes index."Edward Barrett is a Lecturer in the Writing Program at MIT.""Text, ConText, and HyperText is included in the Information Systems series, edited by Michael Lesk.""Text, ConText, and HyperText presents recent developments in three related and important areas of technical communication: the design of effective documentation; the impact of new technology and research on technical wr…
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We live in an information society, or so we are often told. But what does that mean? This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series offers a concise, informal account of the ways in which information and society are related and of our ever-increasing dependence on a complex multiplicity of messages, records, documents, and data. Using information in its everyday, nonspecialized sense, …