Manfred PRISCHING #01

What we have not yet understood is the sudden rupture in our history. It is not a radical development; not an advance in productivity; it is not the information society; it does not simply mean more pictures, more bytes, more channels, more networking. Digitalisation is all this and much more.

AUTHOR

Manfred Prisching
University Professor of Sociology at the University of Graz. Spent time working abroad in Maastricht, at Harvard University and the universities of New Orleans, Little Rock, Las Vegas. 1997 to 2001 Scientific Director of the FH Joanneum. Corr. Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Author of numerous books and publications. [Photo: © Christian Jungwirth]

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