Shaping our lives
Look at how we used telecommunications in various ways over the years, and how our feelings about the technology changed. See how new devices like the telephone, radio and mobile that were once miracles have become part of our daily lives.
Living in a wired world
Telecommunications - along wires or through the airwaves - eliminated the barriers of time and distance in communication. These technologies ...
Living in the telegraph age
The arrival of the electric telegraph in 1837 created a new reality: messages transmitted very quickly and reliably over distances farther than a man ...
Living with the telephone
The telephone was the telecommunication device that defined the 20th century - one that made the biggest impact on ordinary lives. People's ...
Living on the network
Using a telephone is only partly shaped by what the instrument itself is like. Much more it's about what happens when you lift the receiver. Who is on...
Living in the wireless age
The arrival of wireless meant the end of isolation for those in remote areas - on land and sea. At first the effect was potential - only seen...
Living in the satellite age
The Space Age dawned in 1944 when Germany's V-2 rocket reached the edge of the atmosphere. The following year, Arthur C. Clarke envisaged a ...
Living on the move
Wireless, telephone and microchip technology came together in the mid 1980s to make personal radiotelephones technical reality. The cord was...
Living in the information age
The fusion of computers, telephone networks and harmonised data protocols enabled the creation of the World Wide Web. The Internet represents...
