Faxed – The Rise and Fall of the Fax Machine: Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology
Autor Jonathan Coopersmithen Limba Engleză Paperback – 29 sep 2016
Most people assume that the fax machine originated in the computer and electronics revolution of the late twentieth century, but it was actually invented in 1843. Almost 150 years passed between the fax's invention in England and its widespread adoption in tech-savvy Japan, where it still enjoys a surprising popularity. Over and over again, faxing's promise to deliver messages instantaneously paled before easier, less expensive modes of communication: first telegraphy, then radio and television, and finally digitalization in the form of email, the World Wide Web, and cell phones. By 2010, faxing had largely disappeared, having fallen victim to the same technological and economic processes that had created it.
Based on archival research and interviews spanning two centuries and three continents, Coopersmith's book recovers the lost history of a once-ubiquitous technology. Written in accessible language that should appeal to engineers and policymakers as well as historians, Faxed explores themes of technology push and market pull, user-based innovation, and "blackboxing" (the packaging of complex skills and technologies into packages designed for novices) while revealing the inventions inspired by the fax, how the demand for fax machines eventually caught up with their availability, and why subsequent shifts in user preferences rendered them mostly pass .
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781421421230
ISBN-10: 1421421232
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 150 x 237 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Editura: Johns Hopkins University Press
Seria Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology
ISBN-10: 1421421232
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 150 x 237 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Editura: Johns Hopkins University Press
Seria Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology
Notă biografică
Jonathan Coopersmith is a professor of history at Texas A&M University. He is the author of The Electrification of Russia, 1880-1926 and the history of technology blog Infinity, Limited.