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Understanding Communication Technologies

Jennifer H. Meadows, Ph.D.*

You can do dozens of things that your parents never dreamed of: surfing the Internet anytime and anywhere, watching movie-theater quality television programs on a high-definition television (HDTV) in your home, battling aliens on “distant worlds” alongside game players scattered around the globe, and “Googling” any subject you find interesting. This book was created to help you understand these technologies, but there are a special set of tools you can use that will not only help you understand them, but also understand the next generation of technologies, and every generation after that.

All of the communication technologies explored in this book have a number of characteristics ...

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