Tom Standage is the former science correspondent/technology editor and current business at the ECONOMIST magazine.
He is the author of Writing on the Wall: Social Media-The First 2000 Years, the bestseller A History of the World in 6 Glasses, An Edible History of Humanity, The Turk, and The Neptune File, and The Victorian Internet.
He is married and lives in Greenwich, London.
"A fascinating walk through a pivotal period in human history."--USA Today
For many people, the Internet is the epitome of cutting-edge technology. But in the nineteenth century, the first online communications network was already in place--the telegraph. And at the time, it was just as perplexing, controversial, and revolutionary as the Internet is today.
The Victorian Internet tells the story of the telegraph's creation and remarkable impact, and of the visionaries, oddballs, and eccentrics who pioneered it. With the invention of the telegraph, the world of communications was forever changed. The telegraph gave rise to creative business practices and new forms of crime. Romances blossomed over its wires. And attitudes toward everything from news gathering to war had to be completely rethought. The saga of the telegraph offers many parallels to that of the Internet in our own time, and is a remarkable episode in the history of technology.
* Illustrated throughout
* A masterful, lively blend of science and history, in the bestselling tradition of Longitude
"Fascinating...If you've ever hankered for a perspective on media Net hype, this book is for you."--Wired
"Sparkling."--Forbes
"Essential reading for those caught up in our own information revolution."--Christian Science Monitor
從早期的觀感性電報(查普的擺臂式,技術上顯然沒有英國的6開關先進……)到通過電綫傳導信號,到全球電報網絡的建立,奠定瞭後續乃至今天的信息化基礎。 有趣的幾個趕腳: 摩爾斯和庫剋,一美一英兩個電流式電報機發明者,都是非科班齣身的所謂民科;而跨洋電報綫路的創始者菲...
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