Telecommunications — the global transition

Abstract

switching on the global village It is difficult to grasp the effect on society from developments in telecommunications this century, for the impact has been so great. Communication, as the basic means of all human interaction, defines and extends our culture and the opportunities that the individual and the state have for economic and social autonomy. 1 The point has been described thus: The explosion of telecommunications in the second half of the twentieth century may be compared to the transition that humans made thousands of years ago from hunting to agriculture, or, more recently, from an agricultural society to an industrial society. The transition of industrial societies, via the limbo of the ‘post-industrial’ society into fully-fledged information societies — as we witness now — makes telecommunications the hallmark and defining characteristic of our society. It is a measure of a society’s wealth or poverty, and a major factor in a society’s capacity for change. 2 These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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