By Janna Quitney Anderson
ISBN-10: 0742539369
ISBN-13: 9780742539365
ISBN-10: 0742539377
ISBN-13: 9780742539372
Within the early Nineteen Nineties, humans expected the loss of life of privateness, an finish to the present thought of "property," a paperless society, 500 channels of high-definition interactive tv, international peace, and the extinction of the human race after a takeover engineered through clever machines. Imagining the web zeroes in on predictions concerning the Internet's destiny and revisits prior predictions--and how they grew to become out--to positioned that imagined destiny in standpoint. Interlaced with revealing research, this compendium of suggestions from stakeholders and skeptics, from George Orwell, Marshall McLuhan, and Isaac Asimov to invoice Gates, Bruce Sterling, Nicholas Negroponte, Al Gore, and so on, combines background and biography with destiny visions and a glance on the social, political, and fiscal results of latest communique expertise. It additionally supplies the historical past of communications in a nutshell, illustrating the intense effect of pervasive networks and the way they're going to swap our lives over the following century.Visit www.elon.edu/predictions/ to view a complete database that types the investigative foundation for this publication.
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As in the case of radio, the United States allowed free-market commercial development of the new medium while most other nations chose to retain government control over most or all television broadcasters. While it’s true that this led to the broadcast of a great deal of entertainment-oriented dreck, it has also led to more solid television content and freedom than can be found in any international broadcast system. Making the World a Little Smaller In its earliest years, most television programming was difficult to see.
Many critics were concerned about the cozy relationship between Western Union and the Associated Press—the news service that grew with and because of the telegraph industry. AP was a loyal Western Union customer, accounting for 12 percent of Western Union’s total revenue by 1872. It was allowed preferential rates and speediest transmission. It was said that AP rivals were de- FROM BONFIRES AND BONGOS TO THE WEB 21 nied access to Western Union’s service and that the AP reciprocated by failing to report bad news about Western Union.
RADIO The Innovation: Persistence and Self-Promotion Pay Off for Marconi Radio was the next long-distance communications medium to be developed by curious minds; a wireless wonder with much more going for it than the signal fires and drum codes of early humans. Like the flash of a fire and the thumping rhythm of a drum, the electromagnetic wave of the first radio signals could broadcast a message to anyone and everyone within a certain radius. Because of this, governments first feared its potential as a subversive technology.
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