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The History of Our Future
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26.02.2019
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Network revolutions of the past have shaped the present and set the stage for the revolution we are experiencing today
In an era of seemingly instant change, it's easy to think that today's revolutions—in communications, business, and many areas of daily life—are unprecedented. Today's changes may be new and may be happening faster than ever before. But our ancestors at times were just as bewildered by rapid upheavals in what we now call “networks”—the physical links that bind any society together.
In this fascinating book, former FCC chairman Tom Wheeler brings to life the two great network revolutions of the past and uses them to help put in perspective the confusion, uncertainty, and even excitement most people face today. The first big network revolution was the invention of movable-type printing in the fifteenth century. This book, its millions of predecessors, and even such broad trends as the Reformation, the Renaissance, and the multiple scientific revolutions of the past 500 years would not have been possible without that one invention. The second revolution came with the invention of the telegraph early in the nineteenth century. Never before had people been able to communicate over long distances faster than a horse could travel. Along with the development of the world's first high-speed network—the railroad—the telegraph upended centuries of stability and literally redrew the map of the world.
Wheeler puts these past revolutions into the perspective of today, when rapid-fire changes in networking are upending the nature of work, personal privacy, education, the media, and nearly every other aspect of modern life. But he doesn't leave it there. Outlining “What's Next,” he describes how artificial intelligence, virtual reality, blockchain, and the need for cybersecurity are laying the foundation for a third network revolution.
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2019
Publication date
26.02.2019
ISBN-Print
978-0-8157-3532-8
ISBN-Online
978-0-8157-3533-5
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
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English
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backcover1
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Acknowledgments No access
Preface No access
Prologue No access Pages 1 - 8
Connections have Consequences No access
The Original Information Revolution No access
The First High-Speed Network and the Death of Distance No access
The First Electronic Network and the End of Time No access
Computing Engines No access
Connected Computing No access
The Planet's Most Powerful and Pervasive Platform No access
The History We Are Making No access
Connecting Forward No access
Epilogue No access Pages 241 - 242
Notes No access Pages 243 - 274
Index No access Pages 275 - backcover1
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