| The Early Communication |
This chapter deals with the forms 0f pre-digital communication that relied with some form of technologies. Their applications were manifold because effective communication means were instrumental to enable the success of empires of all times. This chapter reviews the foundations of communication and outlines the prospects of digital communication of media in 1960s and ’70s. |
| Communication Before Digital |
This section examines the evolution of the various forms of communication and of of the related businesses providing the means to communicate when technologies were analogue. |
| Communication And Public Authorities |
This section investigates the role played by public authorities and, more recently, by international organisations in promoting communication. |
| Digital Communication Is Good |
There is a long story of reducing some form of information to discrete value. This section tells the story of how it became finally possible to give the media industries the possibility to send bits and end users to receive them. |
| Compressed Digital Is Better |
This section narrates of compression could preserve the benefits of being digital and enable the practical exploitation of digital technologies for the media. |