View a complete list of Cato's free eBooks Tweet By Edwin Diamond, Norman Sandler, and Milton Mueller About the Book The world of communications technology is in turmoil. Debates over regulation, deregulation, and the First Amendment are bringing sweeping policy changes. Technology is altering the shape of our communications system while regulators struggle to keep up. Cable television, low-power TV, satellites, cellular radio, home taping, subscription TV, and direct broadcast service are transforming the way information is exchanged. This book addresses the crucial issues in this process. Edwin Diamond of MIT and Norman Sandler of UPI give the reader a solid and entertaining overview of the changes in technology and public policy that will affect the telecommunications world in the future. Milton Mueller focuses his attention on the fundamental policy question underlying deregulation: allocation of the frequency spectrum. Over the next few years the future shape of the communications industry will be decided. Those who want to know what the future will be -- and how to affect it -- should read this original and provocative book. About the Authors Edwin Diamond is Senior Lecturer in Political Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has worked as an editor for Newsweek and New York Daily News Tonight, contributing editor of New York Magazine, and reporter for newspapers in Chicago and Washington. Norman Sandler was a White House correspondent for United Press International. He worked as a political reporter for UPI in the Midwest and held graduate and undergraduate degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He wrote extensively about telecommunications policy. Milton Mueller is a professor with the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University. He is also a professor at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. He has written on telecommunications issues for a variety of publications and has been a research fellow at the Institute for Human Studies. He has also been an associate policy analyst at the Cato Institute. ISBN: 978-1-937184-56-8 Number of Pages: 128 Categories: Telecom, Internet & Information Policy
