How the World Was One
Arthur C. Clarke has been one of the most influential commentators on - and prophets of - the communications technology which has created the global village. Now, drawing partly on his own sometimes very personal writings, he provides an absorbing history and survey of modern communications.
The story begins with the titanic struggles to lay transatlantic telegraph cables in the nineteenth century...
Arthur C. Clarke has been one of the most influential commentators on - and prophets of - the communications technology which has created the global village. Now, drawing partly on his own sometimes very personal writings, he provides an absorbing history and survey of modern communications.
The story begins with the titanic struggles to lay transatlantic telegraph cables in the nineteenth century...
