Spirit of the Web: The Age of Information from Telegraph to Internet

This popular history of the evolution of the ways we communicate gives us fascinating and important perspective in understanding the roots of the modern electronic revolution. It shows how the wiring of our planet for the last one hundred and fifty years has led to the Global Village we now inhabit.

This is a vast and absorbing story about the human imagination and its resourcefulness. It is a dramatic story that includes personalities and inventions; the social, economic, and political consequences of those technologies, as well as a philosophical subtext about communications theory and how it has changed our world.

Spirit of the Web is an optimistic work that points to the extraordinary promise of the Internet as a truly democratic means of communication.