Dan Schiller
1) Crossed Wires: The Conflicted History of Us Telecommunications, From the Post Office to the Internet
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Description
Telecommunications networks are vast, intricate, hugely costly systems for exchanging messages and information within cities and across continents. From the Post Office and the telegraph to today's internet, these networks have sown domestic division while also acting as sources of international power.
In Crossed Wires, Dan Schiller, who has conducted archival research on United States telecommunications for more than forty years, recovers the extraordinary...