Download or read book Innovation and the Communications Revolution written by John Bray and published by IET. This book was released on 2002-06-14 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting profiles of the mathematicians, engineers, and other scientists who helped create and develop communications technologies, Bray (Imperial College London) begins his volume in the mid-18th century, looking at people like Ampere, Ohm, Faraday, and Hertz, who created the mathematical and scientific foundations of telecommunications. He proceeds to offer chapters on telegraph and cable engineers, telephone engineers, inventors of the thermionic valve, pioneers of radio and television broadcasting, microwave radio-relay engineers, the inventors of the transistor and the microchip, the creators of information theory and digital techniques, satellite communication engineers, pioneers optical fiber communications, and inventors of the Internet and mobile communications. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Download or read book The Communications Revolution written by Fred Williams and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1982-02 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The communications explosion; The electronic environment; The communications future; The new society.

Download or read book Protocols of Liberty written by William B. Warner and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-09-20 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fledgling United States fought a war to achieve independence from Britain, but as John Adams said, the real revolution occurred “in the minds and hearts of the people” before the armed conflict ever began. Putting the practices of communication at the center of this intellectual revolution, Protocols of Liberty shows how American patriots—the Whigs—used new forms of communication to challenge British authority before any shots were fired at Lexington and Concord. To understand the triumph of the Whigs over the Brit-friendly Tories, William B. Warner argues that it is essential to understand the communication systems that shaped pre-Revolution events in the background. He explains the shift in power by tracing the invention of a new political agency, the Committee of Correspondence; the development of a new genre for political expression, the popular declaration; and the emergence of networks for collective political action, with the Continental Congress at its center. From the establishment of town meetings to the creation of a new postal system and, finally, the Declaration of Independence, Protocols of Liberty reveals that communication innovations contributed decisively to nation-building and continued to be key tools in later American political movements, like abolition and women’s suffrage, to oppose local custom and state law.

Download or read book Transforming Global Information and Communication Markets written by Peter F. Cowhey and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2012-01-13 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innovation in information and communication technology (ICT) fuels the growth of the global economy. How ICT markets evolve depends on politics and policy, and since the 1950s periodic overhauls of ICT policy have transformed competition and innovation. For example, in the 1980s and the 1990s a revolution in communication policy (the introduction of sweeping competition) also transformed the information market. Today, the diffusion of Internet, wireless, and broadband technology, growing modularity in the design of technologies, distributed computing infrastructures, and rapidly changing business models signal another shift. This pathbreaking examination of ICT from a political economy perspective argues that continued rapid innovation and economic growth require new approaches in global governance that will reconcile diverse interests and enable competition to flourish. The authors (two of whom were architects of international ICT policy reforms in the 1990s) discuss this crucial turning point in both theoretical and practical terms.

Download or read book The Communications Revolution at Work written by Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.). School of Policy Studies and published by Published for the School of Policy Studies, Queen's University by McGill-Queen's University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No area of technology has developed faster or affected contemporary society more pervasively than electronic communications. Networked computers linked through the internet have enabled finance, commerce and manufacturing to function in a "virtual" environment, unconstrained by time and space. Boundaries have also been removed in voice, image, and data transmission, once normally provided through discrete media. Although the effects of these developments are large, their significance is far from clear. This collection of eleven original papers by British and Canadian experts examines a wide range of practical consequences of the current revolution in communications technology and reconsiders the actual depth of changes so far produced in the economy and society.

Download or read book The Communications Revolution written by Frederick Williams and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book E Britannia written by Steven Barnett and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays focus on how Britain can use its strengths in broadcasting, telecommunications, and deregulation to get the best from new technologies, exploit world markets, and bring its benefits to all in Great Britain.

Download or read book Innovation and the Communications Revolution written by J. Bray and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book reviews the development of the following: telephone; cables; thermionic valves; telegraph-telephone frequency-division multiplex transmission; radiocommunication; sound radio broadcasting; television broadcasting; multi-channel telephony coaxial cable systems; the first trans-Atlantic telephone cable; microwave radio-relays; inventions of the transistor and the microchip; information theory; pulse code modulation; digital techniques; electromechanical and computer-controlled electronic exchange switching systems; satellite communication; long-distance waveguide systems; optical fibre communication systems; visual telecommunication systems; information technology and services; the Internet; the World Wide Web; and mobile radio services

Download or read book The Death of Distance 2 0 written by Frances Cairncross and published by South-Western. This book was released on 2001-01 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Never before in human history has technology advanced as quickly as today. The biggest changes are taking place in communications and computers, which are being combined in new and astonishing ways. In this updated and revised addition, Frances Cairncross analyzes the impact of this revolution on business, government and society.

Download or read book Inside the Communication Revolution written by Robin Mansell and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains original empirical studies conducted within a programme of research in the Information, Networks and Knowledge (INK) research centre at SPRU, University of Sussex.

Download or read book Cuba s Digital Revolution written by Ted A. Henken and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume argues that recent technological developments are reconfiguring the cultural, economic, social, and political spheres of Cuba's Revolutionary project in unprecedented ways"--

Download or read book Funding a Revolution written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1999-02-11 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The past 50 years have witnessed a revolution in computing and related communications technologies. The contributions of industry and university researchers to this revolution are manifest; less widely recognized is the major role the federal government played in launching the computing revolution and sustaining its momentum. Funding a Revolution examines the history of computing since World War II to elucidate the federal government's role in funding computing research, supporting the education of computer scientists and engineers, and equipping university research labs. It reviews the economic rationale for government support of research, characterizes federal support for computing research, and summarizes key historical advances in which government-sponsored research played an important role. Funding a Revolution contains a series of case studies in relational databases, the Internet, theoretical computer science, artificial intelligence, and virtual reality that demonstrate the complex interactions among government, universities, and industry that have driven the field. It offers a series of lessons that identify factors contributing to the success of the nation's computing enterprise and the government's role within it.

Download or read book The Death of Distance written by Frances Cairncross and published by H B S Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the ways in which advances in telecommunication will change the way companies do business, governments are run, and families and friends interact.

Download or read book The Communications Revolution and the Education of Americans written by Council on Learning (U.S.) and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Death of Distance written by Frances Cairncross and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Topics covered include corporate commerce, reinventing government, policing the electronic world.

Download or read book The Communications Revolution written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aimed at 9-13 year olds, this pack looks at the technology underlying modern telecommunications.