The Early Digital Communication

The Early Digital Communication	This chapter narrates a story common to many new technology. It takes time to convince people that it is time to abandon the comfortable old and embrace the promising but unknown new.
The First Digital Wailings	This section describes how the first sample applications of digital technologies to the media became possible.
Digital Technologies Come Of Age	This section talks about the first cases of practical exploitation of digital technologies to the media.
Electronic Computers	This section gives a succinct history of electronic computers – the hardware side because is another story.
Carrying Bits	This section makes the case that storing bits and transmitting bits on analogue carriers are twin problems.
Telecom Bits And Computer Bits	This section argues that bits are bits are bits. Nothing distinguishes a telecom bit from a computer bit but they used to be treated differently.
A personal faultline	This section tells a persona story on the failed implementation of a vision that – irrespective of my will – had an impact on the world and is recounted in these pages.