Telecosm : How Infinite Bandwidth Will Revolutionize Our World / Telecosm, или как беспредельная пропускная способность Сети изменит мир

Отсутствует суперобложкаТелекосм предсказывает новую революционную эпоху неограниченной пропускной способности. Эпоха микрочипов , или микрокосма подходит к концу и начинается новая эра - эра телекосма. Иными словами: в мире действуют и формируются новые технологии связи. George Gilder, the tech-friendly author of the well-received chip treatise,The Meaning of the Microcosm, and publisher of the Gilder Technology Report,has brought forth Telecosm: How Infinite Bandwidth Will Revolutionize OurWorld, another work of technical prose thats sure to appeal to bothtechheads and nontechnical folks alike.Telecosm predicts a revolutionary new era of unlimited bandwidth: itdescribes how the age of the microchip--dubbed the microcosm--is endingand leaving in its wake a new era--the telecosm, or the world enabled anddefined by new communications technology.Speaking like a prophet of the bandwidth deity, Brother Gilder lays down thetelecosmic commandments--the Law of the Telecosm, Gilders Law, the BlackBox Law, and so on. He describes the gaggle of industry players--from cableand satellite to telephone and computer--who populate the telecosm arena.Books about telecommunications rarely are quotable, but Telecosm at times isa brilliant example of magical and (believe it or not) mystical prose.Gilders philo-techno perspective makes for interesting andthought-provoking musings: Wrought of sand, oxygen, and aluminum, the threemost common substances in the Earths crust, the microprocessor distillsideas as complex as a street map of America onto a sliver of silicon thesize of a thumbnail. This gift of the quantum is a miracle of compression.And, finally, he describes precisely what the telecosm will create among itscongregation: The gift of the telecosm is a miracle of expansion: grains ofsand spun into crystalline fibers and woven into worldwide webs.ISBN:0684809303