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Ruling the Waves: Cycles of Discovery, Chaos, and Wealth from the Compass to the Internet Paperback - 2003
by Debora L. Spar
Beginning with the development of the compass, "Ruling the Waves" examines a series of technological revolutions that promised, in their time, to transform the world's politics and business.
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Beginning with the development of the compass, Ruling the Waves examines a series of technological revolutions that promised, in their time, to transform the world's politics and business. With Debora Spar's gifted storytelling, each chapter reads like an adventure tale as she recounts the histories of the printing press and maps; of the telegraph, radio, and satellite television; of software, encryption, and the advent of digital music. At each of these junctures Spar suggests that invention led to both a wave of commerce and of chaos.
Entrepreneurs such as Samuel Morse and Rupert Murdoch carved new markets from the emerging technology and proclaimed that the old rules no longer applied. And for a while, they were right. But eventually--and inevitably--even cowboys need rules: rules of property, rules of coordination, rules of competition. The erstwhile pioneers thus turn to government, lobbying for order and setting the stage for the next wave of discovery.
A fascinating history of business, Ruling the Waves is also an original, thought-provoking analysis of the parallels between past innovations and inventions and our own tumultuous times.
Entrepreneurs such as Samuel Morse and Rupert Murdoch carved new markets from the emerging technology and proclaimed that the old rules no longer applied. And for a while, they were right. But eventually--and inevitably--even cowboys need rules: rules of property, rules of coordination, rules of competition. The erstwhile pioneers thus turn to government, lobbying for order and setting the stage for the next wave of discovery.
A fascinating history of business, Ruling the Waves is also an original, thought-provoking analysis of the parallels between past innovations and inventions and our own tumultuous times.
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- Title Ruling the Waves: Cycles of Discovery, Chaos, and Wealth from the Compass to the Internet
- Author Debora L. Spar
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition (F
- Pages 416
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Business, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
- Date 2003-01-07
- Features Bibliography, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780156027021 / 015602702X
- Weight 1.33 lbs (0.60 kg)
- Dimensions 8.23 x 6.01 x 0.98 in (20.90 x 15.27 x 2.49 cm)
- Ages 06 to 09 years
- Grade levels 1 - 4
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- Chronological Period: Modern
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001024256
- Dewey Decimal Code 303.483
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