0887622275
9780887622274
480 pages
Thomas Allen Publishers
9.0 X 6.0 X 1.5 in
24.95
Available
23 Sep 2006
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From vacuum tubes and telegraphs to BlackBerrys and Google IPOs—an absorbing, dramatic, and comprehensive history of communications technology over the past 150 years.
Newly revised and updated, this new paperback edition of "Spirit of the Web" is an absorbing, dramatic, and comprehensive history of the development of communications technologies over the past 150 years. "Spirit of the Web" provides a fascinating and insightful perspective on the origins of the digital revolution and the history of the Global Village we now inhabit, from vacuum tubes and telegraphs to BlackBerrys and Google IPOs.
“A brilliant book. I couldn’t put it down.”
“…remarkable…a renaissance sweep of imagination…looks deeply into history to find patterns…Spirit of the Web is an engaging hybrid of popular scholarship: part archive, part science textbook, part philosophy, part polemic about the nature of authority and the control of information in all ages.”
“Rowland constructs a spirited, stimulating and sophisticated network of stories and accounts of technological inventions and advances, their roots and consequences for humanity, and the personalities that created them.”
“Spirit of the Web is an excellent examination, not just of the invention of these technologies, but of their economic, social and cultural impact…fascinating…definitive…highly recommended.”
Wade Rowland is the author of more than a dozen books, including "Greed, Inc.", "Galileo’s Mistake", and "Ockham’s Razor". He is a former holder of the Maclean Hunter Chair of Ethics in Communications at Ryerson University in Toronto and currently lectures on the social history of communications technologies at Trent University in Peterborough. He lives near Port Hope, Ontario, with his wife, Christine.
COMPUTERS / Internet / General
COMPUTERS / Information Technology
HISTORY / General