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May 8, 2007
The Victorian Internet
I remember hearing Tom Standage interviewed on NPR several years back about his then-new book that made the argument that the real communications revolution wasn't the Internet, or the web, or anything in the last hundred years but was - in fact - the telegraph. It reduced communications lag from days, or months, to moments and fundamentally changed the way the world works.
I finally got around to getting The Victorian Internet from our local library, and while I wasn't blown away by the writing, the content was solid - and the argument (which he only makes at the very end of the book) pretty well founded.
If only all non-fiction writers were as good as Erick Larson, or Mary Roach...
Posted by dberger at May 8, 2007 3:53 PM