Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- A selected chronology – media, computing and communications -- CHAPTER ONE. The context: a quick tour -- CHAPTER TWO. A seminal moment? -- CHAPTER THREE. Changing spaces -- CHAPTER FOUR. The changing face of telecommunications -- CHAPTER FIVE. Wires, beams and modems: the Internet -- CHAPTER SIX. Wires, beams and modems: the Internet -- CHAPTER SEVEN. The connecting organization -- CHAPTER EIGHT. Six stories -- CHAPTER NINE. Epilogue: some final thoughts -- Bibliography -- Index