Digital Universe. Peter B. Seel

Digital Universe

Telecommunication and the “Flat” World 8 Wired and Wireless Technologies 9 Digital Media Convergence

11 Part IV Internet Control, Cyberculture, and Dystopian Views 10 The Public and Private Internet 11 Censorship and Global Cyberculture 12 Privacy and Surveillance

12 Part V New Communication Technologies and the Future 13 Artificial Intelligence and Telecommunication 14 Alternative Digital Realties 15 The Future of the Digital Universe

13 Index

14 End User License Agreement

List of Figures

1 Chapter 2Figure 2.1 Gordon Moore in front...Figure 2.2 Moore’s Law...Figure 2.3 Moore’s Law Re-plotted...

2 Chapter 3Figure 3.1 Jacques Ellul...Figure 3.2 Neil Postman...Figure 3.3 Safiya Umoja Noble...

3 Chapter 4Figure 4.1 The diagram depicts how...Figure 4.2 Operators used light...Figure 4.3 IBM manufactured the...Figure 4.4 Baran’s 1964 diagrams...Figure 4.5 Paul Baran.Figure 4.6 The primordial internet....Figure 4.7 Dr. Leonard Kleinrock with...Figure 4.8 In room 312 of UCLA’s...Figure 4.9 A close-up of the plaque...Figure 4.10 Rapid Expansion of the...

4 Chapter 5Figure 5.1 A master control room for the internet?...Figure 5.2 A riddle to ponder – Why...Figure 5.3 The Altair 8800 computer...Figure 5.4 The Altair featured...Figure 5.5 For their roles in...

5 Chapter 6Figure 6.1 Archivists access...Figure 6.2 Paul Otlet was a...Figure 6.3 Portrait of Vannevar...Figure 6.4 A schematic diagram...Figure 6.5 Ted Nelson speaking...Figure 6.6 Douglas Engelbart with...Figure 6.7 Tim Berners-Lee receiving...Figure 6.8 Tim Berners-Lee’s schematic...

6 Chapter 7Figure 7.1 Samuel F. B. Morse, photographed...Figure 7.2 The original telegraph key used...Figure 7.3 Winston’s...Figure 7.4 A poster celebrates...Figure 7.5 Cable laying machinery...Figure 7.6 The State of Global...

7 Chapter 8Figure 8.1 Mabel Hubbard Bell...Figure 8.2 Alexander Graham...Figure 8.3 The Blizzard of...Figure 8.4 A 1960s-style...Figure 8.5 Wired to wireless: a ...Figure 8.6 Wireless to wired: a...Figure 8.7 Three types of telecommunications...Figure 8.8 Stages of telecommunications...Figure 8.9 As a mobile phone customer...Figure 8.10 The evolution of mobile...

8 Chapter 9Figure 9.1 KCNC-TV reporter...Figure 9.2 The Alto workstation...Figure 9.3 The Macintosh computer...Figure 9.4 A sound or light wave is...

9 Chapter 10Figure 10.1 John Perry Barlow...Figure 10.2 Dr. Jon Postel of USC...Figure 10.3 Ira Magaziner, Clinton...

10 Chapter 11Figure 11.1 A man holds a portrait...Figure 11.2 She was shot in the...Figure 11.3 Satellite television...Figure 11.4 A mobile phone tower...Figure 11.5 A tour guide in Vietnam...Figure 11.6 Japanese tourists taking...Figure 11.7 Classic Hollywood films...

11 Chapter 12Figure 12.1 Edward Snowden talking...Figure 12.2 Citizenfour director...Figure 12.3 The privacy continuum...Figure 12.4 Surveillance television...Figure 12.5 A map of 604 surveillance...Figure 12.6 Facial recognition is being...Figure 12.7 Shoshana Zuboff is professor...

12 Chapter 13Figure 13.1 An aerial photo of...Figure 13.2 Alan Turing in the...Figure 13.3 A schematic drawing...Figure 13.4 IBM’s Watson...Figure 13.5 World champion...

13 Chapter 14Figure 14.1 Heilig’s Sensorama...Figure 14.2 Cinematographer and...Figure 14.3 Cisco’s TelePresence...Figure 14.4 Escaping Criticism is...Figure 14.5 Doctoral student Ivan...Figure 14.6 Dr. Claude Shannon was...Figure 14.7 Computer graphics and...Figure 14.8 In the 2002 futuristic...Figure 14.9 The author’s crude avatar...Figure 14.10 Ashe is the frost archer avatar...