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Ruling the Waves: Cycles of Discovery, Chaos, and Wealth from the Compass to the Internet

Ruling the Waves: Cycles of Discovery, Chaos, and Wealth from the Compass to the Internet

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Business GeneralTechnology & EngineeringGeneral World History

ISBN10: 015602702X
ISBN13: 9780156027021
Publisher: Harper Business
Published: Jan 7 2003
Pages: 416
Weight: 1.33
Height: 0.98 Width: 6.01 Depth: 8.23
Language: English
Beginning with the development of the compass, Ruling the Waves examines a series of technological revolutions that promised, in their time, to transform the world's politics and business. With Debora Spar's gifted storytelling, each chapter reads like an adventure tale as she recounts the histories of the printing press and maps; of the telegraph, radio, and satellite television; of software, encryption, and the advent of digital music. At each of these junctures Spar suggests that invention led to both a wave of commerce and of chaos.

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