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Highway of Dreams - A Critical View Along the Information Superhighway (Paperback): A.Michael Noll Highway of Dreams - A Critical View Along the Information Superhighway (Paperback)
A.Michael Noll
R905 Discovery Miles 9 050 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This important volume reviews the history of the telecommunication superhighway pointing out its beginnings in the interactive TV and broadband highway of the wired cities more than two decades ago. It explains the technological uncertainties of the superhighway and many of its futuristic services, and also gives an understandable review of the technological principles behind today's modern telecommunication networks and systems.
Recognizing that technology is only one factor in shaping the future, the author, a well-recognized telecommunications expert, analyzes the financial, policy, business, and consumer issues that undermine the superhighway. The book concludes by showing that today's switched telephone network and CATV systems already form a telecommunication superhighway carrying voice, data, image, and video communication for a wide variety of services that enable us to stay in contact with anyone anywhere on our planet.
"Highway of Dreams" is written clearly with understandable explanations for nonspecialists. It challenges the technological utopia offered by the promoters of the superhighway and suggests that consumer needs, finance, corporate culture, and policy often have far greater impact on the future than technology alone.

Bell Labs Memoirs - Voices of Innovation (Paperback): Michael Geselowitz, A.Michael Noll Bell Labs Memoirs - Voices of Innovation (Paperback)
Michael Geselowitz, A.Michael Noll
R443 Discovery Miles 4 430 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Highway of Dreams - A Critical View Along the Information Superhighway (Hardcover): A.Michael Noll Highway of Dreams - A Critical View Along the Information Superhighway (Hardcover)
A.Michael Noll
R2,908 Discovery Miles 29 080 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This important volume reviews the history of the telecommunication superhighway pointing out its beginnings in the interactive TV and broadband highway of the wired cities more than two decades ago. It explains the technological uncertainties of the superhighway and many of its futuristic services, and also gives an understandable review of the technological principles behind today's modern telecommunication networks and systems.
Recognizing that technology is only one factor in shaping the future, the author, a well-recognized telecommunications expert, analyzes the financial, policy, business, and consumer issues that undermine the superhighway. The book concludes by showing that today's switched telephone network and CATV systems already form a telecommunication superhighway carrying voice, data, image, and video communication for a wide variety of services that enable us to stay in contact with anyone anywhere on our planet.
"Highway of Dreams" is written clearly with understandable explanations for nonspecialists. It challenges the technological utopia offered by the promoters of the superhighway and suggests that consumer needs, finance, corporate culture, and policy often have far greater impact on the future than technology alone.

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