How America Got On-line: Politics, Markets, and the Revolution in Telecommunication

by Alan Stone

Book Overview

The telecommunications industry is the fastest growing sector of the US economy. This interdisciplinary study of technopolitical economics traces the industry's evolution from the invention of the telephone to the development of hypercommunications. Primary focus is on AT&T and its rivals.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1563245779
• ISBN13: 9781563245770
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary

Customer Reviews

Excellent Historical Review

This book is an excellent historical review of the computer and telecom technologies, and it is a must-read for anyone interested in the convergence of technologies, surely the most important phenomenon of the next century. The book's historical analysis of where we've been puts into perspective where we are going.

Totally absorbing

One of the most brilliant and insightful books that I have ever read. I was engaged from the first page to the last. I couldn't put it down.