New Age of Communications (Scientific American Focus Book) - Softcover

Green, John

9780805040272: New Age of Communications (Scientific American Focus Book)

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ISBN 10: 0805040277 ISBN 13: 9780805040272

Publisher: Henry Holt & Company Inc, 1996

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How computers and the World Wide Web are revolutionizing our lives in the new global community.

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From the Author

Here's how I announced the book to friends and colleagues:
The book tells the story of communications media past and present profiling key people, events and technologies of the past 300 years and offers scenarios of futures about 20 years hence. It's as much about ideas as technology and provides an introduction to the thinking of the info gurus and media theorists--both those who evangelize the new technologies and those who worry about them--including Marshall McLuhan, Vannevar Bush, John Perry Barlow, Nicholas Negroponte, Esther Dyson and others. Part of the assignment was to separate wherever possible the hype and extravagant predictions from the genuine promise and perils of our digital future. (if you read the book, please do drop me a line; email is below)

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Explores the interrelationships among operations of cable and satellite television, computer networks, broadcast and cellular transmission, fiber optics, and other technologies.

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