The Literature of Connection: Signal, Medium, Interface, 1850-1950

by David Trotter

This book is about some of the ways in which the world got ready to be connected, long before the advent of the technologies and the concentrations of capital necessary to implement a global 'network society'. It investigates the prehistory not of the communications 'revolution' brought about by advances in electronic digital computing from 1950 onwards, but of the principle of connectivity which was to provide that revolution with its justification...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198850476
• ISBN13: 9780198850472
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.2" x 9.3"