Biography

To learn more about Tom Standage, click here.

Here's an interview with Standage about a book that documents a late eighteenth-century controvesy over a machine called "The Turk," which was presented to an astonished public as an automaton that could think for itself.

Bibiliography

Standage’s homepage provides links to articles about other forms of modern communication, including mobile phones, car phones, internet cafes, and the telecom industry. Included are links to The Economist, as well as a link to his own “biography,” (About Me) which shows a picture of him at about the age of 5.

Here's a reprint of the lecture that Robert Giles, curator at Harvard University, delivered to Washington and Lee University in 2000, acknowledging Standage’s article and the ethical implications of how journalists use the Internet for sources of information. A good place to begin thinking about media in general and the ethical implications that speed of information raises today.

Culture: For in-depth research, here's a site with many links to the revolution of communication, starting with the Victorian era and the age of industrialization.