Ruling the Waves: Cycles of Discovery, Chaos, and Wealth from the Compass to the Internet - Couverture rigide

Spar, Debora L.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0151005095 ISBN 13 : 9780151005093

Editeur : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2001

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Présentation de l'éditeur

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. And for a while, they were right. But eventually--and inevitably--even cowboys need rules: rules of property, rules of coordination, rules of competition. The erstwhile pioneers thus turn to government, lobbying for order and setting the stage for the next wave of discovery.
A fascinating history of business, Ruling the Waves is also an original, thought-provoking analysis of the parallels between past innovations and inventions and our own tumultuous times.

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PRAISE FOR RULING THE WAVES

"[An] intriguing and well-crafted new book . . . Truly illuminating."--The Washington Post Book World

"Engaging capsule histories of the growth and eventual control of (maritime) piracy, independent radio broadcasting, encryption, and use of the Internet."--USA Today

"A beautifully written book . . . Spar puts cyberspace in its place."--The Economist

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0151005095
• ISBN 13: 9780151005093
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 403
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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