TY  - GEN
KW  - telecommunication
KW  -  globalization
KW  -  dematerialization
KW  -  telegraph
Y1  - 2010///
CY  - Köln
UR  - https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/19666/
N2  - Telecommunication systems dematerialize the information that they transmit and, thereby, detach the flow of information from the movement of material carriers such as people or goods. The immediate effect of such a dematerialization is a substantial gain in transmission speed, which has often been styled as the principal characteristic of telecommunication. Of far greater
significance ? at least from an analytical perspective ? is, however, the relative gain in information transmission speed as against the speed of movement of people or goods. Flows of dematerialized information work along a completely
new logic. It is one essential constituent of this logic that wherever telecommunication networks reach information outpaces material transport and can, therefore, be used to efficiently coordinate, control and command such material
movement. The telegraph as the first fully-fledged telecommunication system pioneered this qualitative change and introduced a new rationale to global communication ? and, therefore, ultimately to globalization processes of the
nineteenth century.
A1  - Wenzlhuemer, Roland
AV  - public
ID  - heidok19666
TI  - Editorial - Telecommunication and Globalization in the Nineteenth Century
SP  - 7
PB  - Center for Historical Social Research
EP  - 18
ER  -