How the World Was One: Beyond the Global Village
Arthur C. Clarke
288 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0575055464
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Language: English
Publish: July 15, 1993
A history and survey of the communications revolution, from the struggles to lay the transatlantic telephone wires in the 1950s to the development of communication satellites and the new breakthrough in fibre optics. Other work by the author includes “2001: A Space Odyssey”.