Related links for Chapter 7 -- Telecommunication and the "Flat" World
Bern Dibner's classic history of The Atlantic Cable (1964) includes a number of interesting illustrations of the ships involved and the cable-laying technology used. An online version of the history of this key era in global telecommunication is available from the Smithsonian Institution Library.
An interesting brief biography of Harold Innis with bibliographic information is available online at a website posted by Dr. Marshall Soules of Malaspina University-College in British Columbia, Canada.
The Internet Archive's Way Back Machine has saved over 150 billion Web pages since its inception. See early site designs for Yahoo.com and Google.com (and note how little the latter site design has changed since November 1998). It can be accessed with this link.
NASA scientist Donald Kessler first described the threat of a cascading series of collisions of an orbiting satellite or spacecraft with debris in space. Known today as the Kessler Syndrome, such an exponentially expanding series of collisions could destroy essential satellites that society depends upon for telecommunication, navigation, and defense. See Kessler, D. J. & Cour–Palais, B. G. (1978). Collision frequency of artificial satellites: The creation of a debris belt. Journal of Geophysical Research, 83, A6.
An interesting brief biography of Harold Innis with bibliographic information is available online at a website posted by Dr. Marshall Soules of Malaspina University-College in British Columbia, Canada.
The Internet Archive's Way Back Machine has saved over 150 billion Web pages since its inception. See early site designs for Yahoo.com and Google.com (and note how little the latter site design has changed since November 1998). It can be accessed with this link.
NASA scientist Donald Kessler first described the threat of a cascading series of collisions of an orbiting satellite or spacecraft with debris in space. Known today as the Kessler Syndrome, such an exponentially expanding series of collisions could destroy essential satellites that society depends upon for telecommunication, navigation, and defense. See Kessler, D. J. & Cour–Palais, B. G. (1978). Collision frequency of artificial satellites: The creation of a debris belt. Journal of Geophysical Research, 83, A6.
