Ruling the Waves: From the Compass to the Internet, a History of Business and Politics along the Technological Frontier - Couverture souple

Spar, Debora L.

 
9780156027021: Ruling the Waves: From the Compass to the Internet, a History of Business and Politics along the Technological Frontier
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 015602702X ISBN 13 : 9780156027021
Editeur : Mariner Books, 2003

Synopsis

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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À propos de l?auteur

Debora L. Spar is a professor at the Harvard Business School and is the youngest woman in the school's history ever to receive tenure. A political scientist by training, she teaches the politics of international relations there. She lives in Boston with her architect husband and two small sons.

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Éditeur
Mariner Books
Date d'édition
2003
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
015602702X
ISBN 13 
9780156027021
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
416
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0151005095 ISBN 13 :  9780151005093
Editeur : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2001
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