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Best Books About Tech

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Highway of Dreams: A Critical View Along the Information Superhighway
by A. Michael Noll (Lawrence Erlbam Associates, 1997.)

In Highway of Dreams, A. Michael. Noll focuses his over three decades of experience in telecommunications research, marketing, management, and policy on today's telecommunication superhighway. After parodying the technological Utopia offered by the promoters of the superhighway, Highway of Dreams reviews the history of the telecommunication superhighway pointing out how it had its beginnings in the interactive TV and broadband highway of the wired cities of over two decades ago. more info...

Interconnecting the Network of Networks
by Eli M. Noam (MIT Press, 2001.)

This book describes the transformation of telecommunications from national network monopolies to a new system, the network of networks, and the glue that holds it together, interconnection. more info...

Principles of Modern Communications Technology
by A. Michael Noll (Artech House, 2001.)

This book is a broad introduction to the basic technological principles of communication technologies and systems. more info...

Public Television in America
by Eli Noam & Jens Walterman (Bertelsmann Stiftung, 1999.)

In Europe, television began in a public format and public broadcasting defined the medium. But in America, public television was created to fill the programming void left by commercial TV, and tolerated as a belated addition rather than as a co-equal. For decades, commercial television was controlled by the three networks ABC, NBC, and CBS, the economic imperative of which led towards entertainment. more info...

The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo
by Saskia Sassen (Princeton University Press, 2000.)

This is a thoroughly revised edition of the classic work that chronicles how New York, London, and Tokyo became command centers of the global economy and in the process underwent massive and parallel changes. more info...

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