Product Description
A History of Telecommunications
Authors: John Tysoe, Alan Knott-Craig
Format: Hardcover
'Mr Watson, come here, I want to see you.' Nearly 150 years after Alexander Graham Bell spoke those words to an assistant in the next room, the world he spoke them into is unrecognisable — and telecommunications did much of the changing. When the first modern mobile network launched in 1979 there were just over 300 million telephones in existence; there are now more than eight billion, most of them mobile.
John Tysoe and Alan Knott-Craig trace how that happened: the microcircuits, fibre-optics and satellites that made it possible, and the privatisations, mergers and takeovers that shaped a two-trillion-dollar industry. Mostly, though, it is a book about us, and about how much we have always wanted to talk to one another — including the part where the networks that connect us also watch and record what we do.
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