Electronic Globalization

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Electronic Globalization

• Communication in a New Century

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Bi-nary Signaling

• Novelty or Revolutionary new form of
  communication
• Conversion of text into electrical impulses

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Potential for Peace

• Initially started as backbone of defense
  communication.
• the settling of those disputes ..might be
  accomplished in..hours. Encyclopedia Britannica.

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Information Overload

• What was not available before or only available
  after a long wait is now practically
  instantaneous

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On line crime

• Gambling fraud
• Stock Fraud
• Banking Fraud

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Shrinking the World

• Information passed along a cable
• Cable from the Trans-Atlantic connection

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New Vocabulary

• Rapid adoption of new terms into the general
  vocabulary

• On line
• On-line Romance
• Bug
• System Operator
• Chat

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What Hath God Wrought

• Samuel Morse
• March 24, 1844
• Highway of Thought

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The Victorian Internet

• Tom Standage