Akira Nakano
February 9, 2025
The year 1794 marked the beginning of modern telecommunications. Frenchman Claude Chappe developed the pioneering “semaphore telegraph.” The world’s information technology has since developed into the electric telegraph, telephone, wireless telegraph, radio, television, computer, and the Internet. Some say that in 2045, the Singularity will arrive. In this book, we have taken a look at “250 years of information technology” from 1794, when modern telecommunications began, to 2045, when the Singularity will arrive. By grasping the major flow of the development of information technology, we may be able to look ahead to the digital and AI societies of the future.
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