THE INFORMATION SOCIETY: A History of the Future
A lecture by Dr Richard Barbrook
Wednesday, 22nd February 2006, 6.15 for 6.30pm
British Computer Society (BCS), 1st floor, 5 Southampton St, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7HA
Cost: Admission is free and everyone is welcome. Bring your colleagues and friends interested in IT, but please register in advance, as soon as possible via the BCS North London Branch web-site: www.nlondon.bcs.org
Nearest tubes: Charing Cross, Covent Garden

This lecture is a history of the future. It will show how our contemporary understanding of the Net is shaped by a forty-year-old prophecy. During the Cold War, the rulers of America appropriated the ideas of Marshall McLuhan for the propaganda struggle against its Russian rival. The USA was building the next stage of human civilisation – the information society – and the rest of the world would have to follow its path into the networked future. . . more >>