November 2012
Intermediate to advanced
1200 pages
78h 13m
English
Daniel S. Soper1, Information Systems and Decision Sciences Department, Mihaylo College of Business and Economics, California State University, Fullerton, 1Email: dsoper@fullerton.edu
For virtually all of human history, the communication of information was relegated to the surface of the Earth. Whether written or spoken, transmitted by land, by sea, or by air, all messages had one thing in common – they were, like those who created them, inescapably bound to the terrestrial surface. In February 1945, however, the landscape of human communication was forever altered when an article by the highly influential science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke proposed the extraordinary possibility that artificial ...
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