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- catalog abstract ""This is a book about technology, and about rules. It is about what happens when technology moves faster than governments, creating markets that - for some time at least - have no rules. It is a book about the pioneers who thrive in a world of chaos and the governments that eventually rein them in." "Beginning with the development of the compass in the early Middle Ages, Debora Spar takes the reader back in time, looking at a series of technological revolutions that promised, in their time, to transform the worlds of politics and business. She tells tales of the printing press and maps; of telegraph, radio, and satellite television; of software, encryption, and the advent of digital music. At each of these junctures, she suggests, technological innovation leads to both a wave of commerce and of chaos. Entrepreneurs such as Samuel Morse and Rupert Murdoch carve new markets from the emerging technology and proclaim that the old rules no longer apply."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12107187.
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""This is a book about technology, and about rules. It is about what happens when technology moves faster than governments, creating markets that - for some time at least - have no rules. It is a book about the pioneers who thrive in a world of chaos and the governments that eventually rein them in." "Beginning with the development of the compass in the early Middle Ages, Debora Spar takes the reader back in time, looking at a series of technological revolutions that promised, in their time, to transform the worlds of politics and business. She tells tales of the printing press and maps; of telegraph, radio, and satellite television; of software, encryption, and the advent of digital music. At each of these junctures, she suggests, technological innovation leads to both a wave of commerce and of chaos. Entrepreneurs such as Samuel Morse and Rupert Murdoch carve new markets from the emerging technology and proclaim that the old rules no longer apply."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [385]-389) and index.".
- catalog description "Prologue: The View from Partenia -- The First Wave -- The Codemakers -- Radio Days -- BSkyB and the New Wave of Television -- Last Stand of the Cypherpunks -- Trusting Microsoft -- Space Music -- Surfing the Barbary Coast.".
- catalog extent "403 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Ruling the waves.".
- catalog identifier "0151005095".
- catalog isFormatOf "Ruling the waves.".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Harcourt,".
- catalog relation "Ruling the waves.".
- catalog subject "303.48/3 21".
- catalog subject "HM846 .S63 2001".
- catalog subject "Information technology Economic aspects.".
- catalog subject "Information technology Social aspects.".
- catalog subject "Internet Economic aspects.".
- catalog subject "Internet Social aspects.".
- catalog subject "Technological innovations Economic aspects.".
- catalog subject "Technological innovations Social aspects.".
- catalog subject "Technology and state.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Prologue: The View from Partenia -- The First Wave -- The Codemakers -- Radio Days -- BSkyB and the New Wave of Television -- Last Stand of the Cypherpunks -- Trusting Microsoft -- Space Music -- Surfing the Barbary Coast.".
- catalog title "Ruling the waves : cycles of discovery, chaos, and wealth from the compass to the Internet / Debora L. Spar.".
- catalog type "text".