Telecommunications and the future

This review of innovators and innovation in telecommunications and broadcasting systems has shown how these have evolved from the primitive beginnings of electrical science in the 18th century to the comprehensive, powerful and world wide communication systems of the 21st century, which are now indispensable to the social and business worlds and the processes of government. The technology and system concepts that have been created would appear to provide well for existing communication service needs, both in types of service and by scale, and even to anticipate in some degree future needs.