With telecommunications, the further you go, the more dramatic the impact. Thus the telegraph, telephone and wireless altered the relationship between communities and nations more dramatically than the relationships within them.
Perhaps the greatest impact of the telegraph was the way it changed diplomacy, power politics and the balances between peace and war.
A major effect of telecommunications has been acceleration: the faster information can pass back and forth, the more rapidly things can happen; from the escalation of diplomatic crises to their resolution - or the ...
Telegraph lines were essentially safe from eavesdropping from enemy powers - so long as the whole line ran along secure routes. Radio signals, however, went out into the ether and could be intercepted by anyone with an ...
Today, every Internet user has access to encryption. Many Net transactions are encoded automatically without us being aware of it happening.
There is an ongoing war ...
In the Telecommunication Age, information has become the most important commodity of all. Access to information has become a goal in itself for a new breed of criminal - hackers and virus pranksters - whose aim is to ...