As we move further into a new millennium often typified by the rapid dissemination of digital communication technologies, many questions arise with respect to the way these new tools potentially impact the individuals and groups who use them. Attendant to these questions is the degree to which technology users themselves might adapt such tools to their own purposes as the Internet, and all of its apparatuses, spread into the hidden space and places of the world. Deferring, for the time-being, the standing promise of digital communication systems designed to enhance productivity,...
As we move further into a new millennium often typified by the rapid dissemination of digital communication technologies, many questions ari...
The Bell System dominated telecommunications in the United States and Canada for most of the twentieth century, but its monopoly was not inevitable. In the decades around 1900, ordinary citizens farmers, doctors, small-town entrepreneurs established tens of thousands of independent telephone systems, stringing their own wires to bring this new technology to the people. Managed by opportunists and idealists alike, these small businesses were motivated not only by profit but also by the promise of open communication as a weapon against monopoly capital and for protection of regional...
The Bell System dominated telecommunications in the United States and Canada for most of the twentieth century, but its monopoly was not inevitable...
