This book is about how electronics computing & telecommunications have profoundly changed our lives
- the way we work live & play It covers a myriad of topics from the invention of the fundamental devices & integrated circuits through radio & television to computers mobile telephones & GPS Today our lives are ruled by electronics as they control the home & computers dominate the workspace We walk around with mobile phones & communicate by email Electronics didn't exist until into the twentieth century The industrial revolution is the term usually applied to the coming of steam railways & the factory system In the twentieth century it is electronics that has changed the way we gather our information entertain ourselves communicate & work This book demonstrates that this is in fact another revolution