A Nation Transformed by Information: How Information Has Shaped the United States from Colonial Times to the Present
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| Rating | : | 4.64 (711 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0195127013 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 404 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-09-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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From the beginning North Americans were willing to invest in the infrastructure to make such connectivity possible. This book makes the startling case that North Americans were getting on the "information highway" as early as the 1700's, and have been using it as a critical building block of their social, economic, and political world ever since. In the 20th century they added television, computers, and the Internet, ultimately connecting themselves to a whole world of information. In the 19th century, Americans developed the telegraph, telephone, and motion pictures, inventions that further expanded the reach of information. This book explores what the deployment of these technologies says about American society. By the time of the founding of the United States, there was a postal system and roads for the distribution of mail, copyright laws to protect intellectual property, and newspapers, books, and broadsides to bring information to a populace that was building a nation on the basis of an informed electorate. The editors assembled a group of contributor
These help to contextualize the information architecture we take for granted, as well as the innovations made possible by this architecture--imagine 50-story buildings without telephones. Fascinating nuggets of post-McLuhan media history lie within this sober analysis; it's startling to read of the antebellum U.S. Chandler Jr. Editors Alfred D. and James W. Though the editors profess no gift of prophecy for themselves or their authors, A Nation Transformed by Information will still give canny readers something to think about as they make their way through the Information Age. Post Office refusing to deliver abolitionist materials to slave states, for example. --Rob Lightner. Cortada assembled a healthy mix of historians and management consultants to write the history of information services in America, and the
Five Stars Amazon Customer I am very happy with this book. Richard J. Cullen said Poor editing. This book was interesting, but the editing was so poor that I started to mistrust what I was reading. For instance the famous first telegraph message "What hath God wrought" was printed as "What God hath wrought." The book is full of typos.. Good subject, but poor editing W. Mckinnon I bought this book because my work is in information reporting and I thought it would provide an interesting perspective. It did succeed at that. Because I come from a technical background, I had a little trouble getting started with the book, until I released it was written from a sociology background. Once I got past that I enjoyed the book except for the extremely poor editing. There were numerous grammatical and sentence structure errors, contradicting statements misspellings and general redundancy that really d
Cortada is an Executive at IBM Global Services.. Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. is Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, Emeritus, at Harvard Business School.James W