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Constant Touch: A Global History of the Mobile Phone
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Technology & EngineeringGeneral World History
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ISBN13: 9781848315075
Publisher: Icon Books
Published: Feb 7 2013
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.99 Width: 5.19 Depth: 8.16
Language: English
Jon Agar takes the modern mobile phone to pieces, tracing what makes it work, and puts it together again, showing how it was shaped as a global basis. A truly world history of this everyday device which we take for granted.
Jon Agar is currently senior lecturer in Science and Technology Studies at University College London. He is an expert on contemporary technologies (mobile phones, ID cards).
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