num_pages: 288
description: A history and survey of the communications revolution, from the struggles to lay the transatlantic telephone wires in the 1950s to the development of communication satellites and the new breakthrough in fibre optics. Other work by the author includes "2001: A Space Odyssey".
language: English
title: How the World Was One: Beyond the Global Village
titlecomplete: How the World Was One: Beyond the Global Village
genres: History, Technology, Engineering, Biography, Science, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 170
publisher: Orion Publishing Co