One aspect of such an early information society deliberately outside the scope of this book concerns the rise of mass communications and mass media. In part, this is because many others better qualified than ourselves have charted the rise of the press and telecommunications, and the publication of another media history was never our intention. More specifically, however, as our sub-title suggests, our goal is to focus upon those social systems which were developed with the aim of managing informations, rather than every aspect the history of communication.
Of course, the age of high industrial modernity which we cover witnessed the development of postal services, global telegraph; a mass circulation press; telephone; radio; and at the end of our period, television–and these technologies were fundamental in increasing both the speed and volume of the production and transmission of information. Our concern, however, is with the ways in which their products–new books; magazines; papers; records; cards; taps and photographs–began to be organised and exploited, and with the extent to which a sphere of activity developed which re-conceptualised them as 'information'
ABOUT THE AUTHOR S.K. Kapoor
Ved Rattan Dr. S.K. Kapoor is disciple of Yogiraj Sri Sripad Babaji Maharaj, Vrindavan and H.H. Maharishi Mahesh Yogiji Maharaj. Dr. Kapoor is continuing with the old traditions and is reviving the ancient discipline of Vedic Mathematics and Vedic Geometry. Going by the saying that author is known by the books Authored by him, it can be well siad in respect of Ved Rattan Dr. S.K. Kapoor that he is deserving disciple of enlightened Gurus. Present Bok of the Author, is his sixth publication. Step by step, Dr. Kapoor is taking his readers in his books one after the other and the present one "Learn and Teach-Vedic Mathematics", following 'Glimpses of Vedic Mathematics', and Vedic Geometry,'Fermats Last Theorem and Higher Spaces Reality Course', 'Foundation of Higher Vedic Mathematics', 'GoldBach Theorem'. (Published by M/s Arya Book Depot, Karol Bagh, New Delhi. Dr. Kapoor has been awarded Guru Gangeshwarananda Veda Ratna Puraskar 1997 by Bhartiya Viday Bhawan for his excellence and research in the field of Vedic Sciences and Mathematics. The Ved Ratna Puraskar, as these are called, have come to be accepted as highest epitomes of all honours that a Vedic scholar can strive to achieve in his life time.
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