Chapter 12, Garnham

This is a really thorough critique! When reading all these chapters, I keep wondering: what kind of social changes are fundamental to a society? There does not seem to be an answer. It seems like theorists are using different standards or just avoiding this question. To Garnham, Castells’ theory is technological determinism. This term probably can apply to all advocates of information society. Technological determinism is not a difficult term to understand, but now it becomes harder, because when reading the original works, it is not that easy to tell. At least Castells keeps telling the readers that IT does not cause the changes, but information revolution is important for the changes.