Sublime Communication Technologies

by Rod Giblett

Preface Acknowledgements Flow along a Communication and its Technologies Crude Conqueror of Steam Railways Mind over Electrical Telegraphy Shooting the The Camera is a Gun, Photography is a Shot The Hell of Cinema Paradiso Magician's Bower and Monstrous The Car as Communication Technology The Magical in the Ethereal Radio Disciplinary and Flâ The Panopticon and Panorama of Television Orbiting in the Sublime Company of Heavenly Satellites from Cold War to Gulf War The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace and the Slimy Swamps of Computers and the Internet Blue Sky Spectrum and Space References Index

236 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2008

About the author

Rod Giblett is the author of 'Black Swan Lake: Life of a Wetland' (Intellect Books, 2011) and many other books about wetlands. He lived by Forrestdale Lake on the outskirts of Perth in Western Australia for 28 years. He taught and researched at Australian universities for 25 years and is now a writer. He is married to a retired junior primary school teacher who helped a lot with the writing of 'The Dragon and Saint George'.