A telephone for the world :: Iridium, Motorola, and the making of a global age /
In June 1990, Motorola publicly announced an ambitious business venture called Iridium. The project's signature feature was a constellation of 77 satellites in low-Earth orbit which served as the equivalent of cellular towers, connecting to mobile customers below using wireless hand-held phones...
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| Zusammenfassung: | In June 1990, Motorola publicly announced an ambitious business venture called Iridium. The project's signature feature was a constellation of 77 satellites in low-Earth orbit which served as the equivalent of cellular towers, connecting to mobile customers below using wireless hand-held phones. As one of the founding engineers noted, the constellation "bathed the planet in radiation," enabling a completely global communications system. Focusing on the Iridium venture, this book explores the story of globalization at a crucial period in US and international history. As the Cold War waned, corporations and nations reoriented toward a new global order in which markets, neoliberal ideology, and the ideal of a borderless world predominated. As a planetary-scale technological system, the project became emblematic of this shift and of the role of the United States as geopolitical superpower. In its ambition, scope, challenges, and organizing ideas, the rise of Iridium provides telling insight into how this new global condition stimulated a re-thinking of corporate practices--on the factory floor, in culture and knowledge, and in international relations. Combining oral history interviews with research in corporate records, Martin Collins opens up new angles on what global meant in the years just before and after the end of the Cold War. The first book to tell the story of Iridium in this context, A Telephone for the World is a fascinating look at how people, nations, and corporations across the world grappled in different ways with the meaning of a new historical era. -- Provided by publisher |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (viii, 265 pages) : illustrations |
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| contents | Introduction -- Iridium and the global age -- The global and the engineers -- The global and Iridium the business -- "Freedom to communicate": ideology and culture in the global -- From "it's a bird, it's a phone ..." to "Edsels in the sky": or, the end of Iridium's global vision -- Conclusion. |
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| spelling | Collins, Martin J., 1951- author. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJhmKpDfChTH6B3GVPTyh3 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82251158 A telephone for the world : Iridium, Motorola, and the making of a global age / Martin Collins. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018. ©2018 1 online resource (viii, 265 pages) : illustrations text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-258) and index. Introduction -- Iridium and the global age -- The global and the engineers -- The global and Iridium the business -- "Freedom to communicate": ideology and culture in the global -- From "it's a bird, it's a phone ..." to "Edsels in the sky": or, the end of Iridium's global vision -- Conclusion. Print version record. In June 1990, Motorola publicly announced an ambitious business venture called Iridium. The project's signature feature was a constellation of 77 satellites in low-Earth orbit which served as the equivalent of cellular towers, connecting to mobile customers below using wireless hand-held phones. As one of the founding engineers noted, the constellation "bathed the planet in radiation," enabling a completely global communications system. Focusing on the Iridium venture, this book explores the story of globalization at a crucial period in US and international history. As the Cold War waned, corporations and nations reoriented toward a new global order in which markets, neoliberal ideology, and the ideal of a borderless world predominated. As a planetary-scale technological system, the project became emblematic of this shift and of the role of the United States as geopolitical superpower. In its ambition, scope, challenges, and organizing ideas, the rise of Iridium provides telling insight into how this new global condition stimulated a re-thinking of corporate practices--on the factory floor, in culture and knowledge, and in international relations. Combining oral history interviews with research in corporate records, Martin Collins opens up new angles on what global meant in the years just before and after the end of the Cold War. The first book to tell the story of Iridium in this context, A Telephone for the World is a fascinating look at how people, nations, and corporations across the world grappled in different ways with the meaning of a new historical era. -- Provided by publisher Iridium Communications, Inc. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2016120902 Iridium Communications, Inc. fast Motorola Communications and Electronics Chicago, Ill. gnd http://d-nb.info/gnd/136332-3 Telecommunication United States History. Artificial satellites in telecommunication United States History. Télécommunications États-Unis Histoire. Satellites artificiels dans les télécommunications États-Unis Histoire. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Industries Media & Communications. bisacsh TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING Telecommunications. bisacsh Artificial satellites in telecommunication fast Telecommunication fast United States fast https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq Iridium Mobilfunk gnd http://d-nb.info/gnd/4998375-1 Satellitenfunk gnd http://d-nb.info/gnd/4138349-7 Satellitentelefon gnd http://d-nb.info/gnd/7523237-6 Handy gnd http://d-nb.info/gnd/4338635-0 Telekommunikationsnetz gnd http://d-nb.info/gnd/4133586-7 Telekommunikation gnd http://d-nb.info/gnd/4059360-5 Globalisierung gnd Geopolitik gnd http://d-nb.info/gnd/4156741-9 USA gnd http://d-nb.info/gnd/4078704-7 History fast has work: A telephone for the world (Text) https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCFv4hDCmgpB4y4Yr6k6fG3 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/ontology/hasWork Print version: Collins, Martin J., 1951- Telephone for the world. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018 9781421424835 (DLC) 2017030370 (OCoLC)1002211662 FWS01 ZDB-4-EBA FWS_PDA_EBA https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1619085 Volltext |
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| title | A telephone for the world : Iridium, Motorola, and the making of a global age / |
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| title_full | A telephone for the world : Iridium, Motorola, and the making of a global age / Martin Collins. |
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| topic_facet | Iridium Communications, Inc. Motorola Communications and Electronics Chicago, Ill. Telecommunication United States History. Artificial satellites in telecommunication United States History. Télécommunications États-Unis Histoire. Satellites artificiels dans les télécommunications États-Unis Histoire. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Industries Media & Communications. TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING Telecommunications. Artificial satellites in telecommunication Telecommunication United States Iridium Mobilfunk Satellitenfunk Satellitentelefon Handy Telekommunikationsnetz Telekommunikation Globalisierung Geopolitik USA History |
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