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| Title: |
One World … One Telephone: Iridium, One Look at the Making of a Global Age |
| Author: |
Collins, Martin |
| Appeared in: |
History and technology |
| Paging: | Volume 21 (2005) nr. 3 pages 301-324 |
| Year: |
2005-09 |
| Contents: |
The global has become an important, but sometimes amorphous conceptual category in understanding recent historical change for a range of literatures—including those pertaining to postmodernism, globalization, and science and technology studies. This article attempts to offer one empirical reference point on how conceptions of the global entered into one of the signature technology and business ventures of the 1990s: Iridium, a pan-national corporation initiated by Motorola to provide worldwide cellular telephony via satellites and handheld mobile phones. |
| Publisher: |
Routledge |
| Source file: |
Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften |
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