Ruling the Waves From the Compass to the Internet, a History of Business and Politics along the Technological Frontier

Name: Ruling the Waves From the Compass to the Internet, a History of Business and Politics along the Technological Frontier
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ISBN: 9780156027021

ISBN-10: 015602702X

ISBN-13: 9780156027021

Edition: 2001

Authors: Debora L. Spar

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Beginning with the development of the compass, Ruling the Waves examines a series of technological revolutions that promised, in their time, to transform the world's politics and business. With Debora Spar's gifted storytelling, each chapter reads like an adventure tale as she recounts the histories of the printing press and maps; of the telegraph, radio, and satellite television; of software, encryption, and the advent of digital music. At each of these junctures Spar suggests that invention led to both a wave of commerce and of chaos. Entrepreneurs such as Samuel Morse and Rupert Murdoch carved new markets from the emerging technology and proclaimed that the old rules no longer applied.…

Book details

List price: $32.50
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 1/7/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 5.63" wide x 8.63" long x 0.92" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Prologue: The View from Partenia



The First Wave



The Codemakers



Radio Days



BSkyB and the New Wave of Television



Last Stand of the Cypherpunks



Trusting Microsoft



Space Music



Surfing the Barbary Coast


Selected Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Index