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For those who have never seen it, Neal Stephenson's "Mother Earth Mother Board" for Wired in 1996 is the must-read classic of this genre. Wired seems to have pa
by khuey 3y ago
For those who have never seen it, Neal Stephenson's "Mother Earth Mother Board" for Wired in 1996 is the must-read classic of this genre. Wired seems to have paywalled it recently but it's available on archive.org
https://web.archive.org/web/20151107094324/https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/ https://web.archive.org/web/20151107094324/https://www.wired...
- gabcoh 3y agoAnd if you’re craving even more telecoms history after that (as I was when I read it a few years ago) Arthur C Clarke’s “How the World Was One” goes into the history of undersea cables and other telecoms technologies https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_the_World_Was_One https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_the_World_Was_One
- davidw 3y agoThat immediately came to mind when I saw this article.