The age of electronic messages / John G. Truxal.
1990
TK5101 .T79 1990eb
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Title
The age of electronic messages / John G. Truxal.
Author
Truxal, John G.
ISBN
0262257092 (electronic bk.)
9780262257091 (electronic bk.)
0262200740
9780262200745
0262701022
9780262701020
9780262257091 (electronic bk.)
0262200740
9780262200745
0262701022
9780262701020
Publication Details
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1990.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xvi, 487 pages) : illustrations.
Call Number
TK5101 .T79 1990eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
621.382
Summary
What are the frontiers of today's communications technology? The Age of Electronic Messages explains the scientific principles on which this technology is based and explores its capabilities and limitations, its risks and benefits. In straightforward language accompanied by numerous illustrations, Truxal describes the communications technology that has become such an integral part of today's work and leisure. He provides accounts of the bar codes used in supermarkets and the postal system of the way signals are described in terms of frequencies and in digital form of hearing and audio systems, of radio and navigation, of medical imaging, and of television broadcasting and narrowcasting. Unlike other books on the subject, The Age of Electronic Messages takes into account the sociology of the new communications technology as well as its mathematical and physical underpinnings. John Truxal is Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Department of Technology and Society at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. The Age of Electronic Messages is included in the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation sponsored series, the New Liberal Arts.
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