From shouted messages to optical fibres, Laszlo Solymar鈥檚 Getting the
Message does a terrific job of giving us the history of communications.
Alongside the usual impenetrable acronyms like ISDN and ATM you鈥檒l find a
reminder of the unique power of electronic communications to frustrate
dictatorial regimes, and even bring them down. Published by Oxford University
Press, 拢25, ISBN 0198503334.
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