Title: New York closer in 2000 (but not much!)
Product review: I thought this was a fascinating read. I am not very technically minded but I think sending a message from London that can be read anywhere in the world within a few minutes is pretty amazing. It is chastening to realise though that the ability to do this has existed (via Morse code and deep sea submarine cables) since the 1860s! Even in the 1810s the optical telegraph allowed "text messaging" of a sort. Optical messages ("transmitted" using a glorified windmill and a man with a telescope) were brief but probably not so different to what we got used to receiving on our pagers in the '90s. An excellent book to read on a journey.
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