James Gleick

From the New York Times bestselling author, a thrilling history of the telephone and how we fell in and out of love with a technology that changed not just the world, but changed us.'Charts our distance-compressing, time-shifting telephonic adventure with exceptional brio and subtlety' - Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction'Forces you to see the world with new eyes. Blending expertise with a thrilling narrative .