Claim: Control Revolution is a complex of rapid changes in the technological and economic arrangements through which formal or programmed decisions might effect societal control.

Method: Looking at all living systems, and not only in history, in order to understand the expanding economy of information as a means of control. (eg looking at biology of life). (vi, viii)

Overview:

There seems to be a reference to cybernetics as the study of control in living beings and machines.

The book has three parts:

1. Biology and technology: background on both.

2. Industrialization: crisis of control.

3. Information society: control as engine of it.