Download or read book The Control Revolution written by James R. Beniger and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beniger traces the origin of the Information Society to major economic and business crises of the past century. In the U.S., applications of steam power in the early 1800s brought a dramatic rise in the speed, volume, and complexity of industrial processes, making them difficult to control. Inevitably the Industrial Revolution, with its ballooning use of energy to drive material processes, required a corresponding growth in the exploitation of information.