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== Structure draft == | |||
=== Intro: === | |||
This essay is going to be an alternative history of the internet. It is a story that doesn't start with American military think tanks of the Cold War, or the dreams and aspiration of Californian hippies. Instead, this story starts roughly one hundred years prior, in colonial europe. | |||
By examining the history of telecommunications infrastructure, from telegraphy to internet, I will argue that, through incremental upgrade, the same set of interests have permeated and the same power structures have been maintained and reinforced. | |||
=== Chapter 1: === | |||
From telegraph, to telephone to teletype | |||
a history of telegraphy and the role of monopoly in it's development. arguing that the initial infrastructure was laid out according to the interests of business and colonial empire. the story of western union and eastern telegraph company. | |||
from telegraph to telephone. on the story of the bell company, consolidation of telecommunications monopoly and the formation of at&t. | |||
in europe | |||
telephone to teletype. fax data lines investment in fibre optics. | |||
== Literature overview so far == | == Literature overview so far == | ||
Revision as of 17:04, 22 January 2014
Hello World
Structure draft
Intro:
This essay is going to be an alternative history of the internet. It is a story that doesn't start with American military think tanks of the Cold War, or the dreams and aspiration of Californian hippies. Instead, this story starts roughly one hundred years prior, in colonial europe.
By examining the history of telecommunications infrastructure, from telegraphy to internet, I will argue that, through incremental upgrade, the same set of interests have permeated and the same power structures have been maintained and reinforced.
Chapter 1:
From telegraph, to telephone to teletype a history of telegraphy and the role of monopoly in it's development. arguing that the initial infrastructure was laid out according to the interests of business and colonial empire. the story of western union and eastern telegraph company.
from telegraph to telephone. on the story of the bell company, consolidation of telecommunications monopoly and the formation of at&t. in europe
telephone to teletype. fax data lines investment in fibre optics.
Literature overview so far
Blum, A. (2013). Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet Paperback. Ecco.
Galloway, A. R. (2006). Protocol: How Control Exists After Decentralization. The MIT Press.
Graeber, D. (2011). Debt: The First 5,000 Years. Melville House.
Malecki, E. J. (2002). The Economic Geography of the Internet’s Infrastructure. Clark University.
Morozov, E. (2013). To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism. PublicAffairs.
Barbrook, R. & Cameron, A. (101AD). The Californian Ideology.
Standage, T. (2007). The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century’s On-Line Pioneers. Bloomsbury USA.
Turner, F. (2006). From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism. University of Chicago Press.
Wallsten, S. (2005). Returning to Victorian Competition, Ownership, and Regulation: An Empirical Study of European Telecommunications at the Turn of the Twentieth Century. Cambridge University Press.