{"id":59913,"date":"2024-03-14T19:23:35","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T23:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=f732e6405b9b483e7236f7ea7099d00d"},"modified":"2024-03-14T19:23:35","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T23:23:35","slug":"table-of-contents-for-other-networks-a-radical-technology-sourcebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=59913","title":{"rendered":"table of contents for Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/loriemerson.net\/2024\/03\/14\/table-of-contents-for-other-networks-a-radical-technology-sourcebook\/\">loriemerson<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: This is going to be a fun book.<\/div><p>At long last, I can share the final table of contents for <em>Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook<\/em> (forthcoming from Anthology Editions&hellip;sometime&hellip;soon!)&ndash;a coffee table book that is equal parts speculative, playful, and serious. In the introduction I write about the need for &ldquo;other networks,&rdquo; how taxonomies shape and determine knowledge, why I decided on this network taxonomy in particular, and how the future of the internet is the future of networks. But just in terms of how I&rsquo;m defining &ldquo;other networks&rdquo;&hellip;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My initial goal was to compile an inventory of networks that preceded the internet, by which I meant any network that existed before the widespread adoption of TCP\/IP. This would have been simple enough, if it weren&rsquo;t for the fact that the adoption of TCP\/IP took over a decade (or longer) to happen, and also for the fact that (as it turns out) one may run a network on TCP\/IP but not necessarily connect that network to the internet. Moreover, it also turns out that nearly countless computer networks emerged throughout the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s&mdash;so many, in fact, that this book would need to expand to another two or three volumes in order to include them all. <a>These networks also present intriguing complications when it comes to classification<\/a>: according to the taxonomy used in this book, these networks would mostly be considered &ldquo;hybrid,&rdquo; in that they used (often undocumented, frequently proprietary) combinations of wireless and wired infrastructures, and they also often relied upon a wide range of protocols and\/or software that this book&rsquo;s structure, biased as it is toward material infrastructure, cannot quite account for. My imperfect solution, then, has been to include only one digital computer network (time-sharing networks) as a way to gesture to all the other &ldquo;other networks&rdquo; that remain to be documented and to try to account for many (not all and not even most) networks that did not use TCP\/IP. For the sake of not allowing my definition of &lsquo;network&rsquo; to remain tied only to computer networks, I have also defined a network simply as the connection between two or more nodes that facilitates human communication (thereby excluding networking technologies such as radar, that are mostly used for tracking). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyways, I hope this list intrigues!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a><\/a>Chronological List of Networks<br \/>Chronological List of Network Experiments<br \/>Acknowledgements<br \/>Foreword<br \/>Introduction<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Wireless Networks:<\/strong><br \/>Sound Networks<br \/>[1] Drums<br \/>[2] Whistling<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Air Networks<br \/>[3] Fire or Smoke Signals<br \/>[4] Pneumatic Tubes<br \/>[5] Skywriting<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Water Networks<br \/>[6] Hydraulic Semaphore<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Optical Networks<br \/>[7] Flag Signaling<br \/>[8] Optical Telegraph<br \/>[9] Infrared Communication<br \/>[10] Signal Lamp<br \/>[11] Heliograph<br \/>[12] Photophone<br \/>[13] Ultraviolet Communication<br \/>[14] Laser Communication<br \/>[15] Visible Light Communication<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Radio Networks <br \/>[16] Amateur Radio<br \/>[16.1] Radiotelegraphy<br \/>[16.2] Radioteletype <br \/>[16.3] Amateur Television<br \/>[16.4] Hellschreiber<br \/>[16.5] Earth-Moon-Earth Communication<br \/>[16.6] Amateur Radio Satellite<br \/>[16.7] Amateur Packet Radio<br \/>[17] Radio Broadcast<br \/>[18] Pirate Radio<br \/>[19] Radiofax<br \/>[20] Two-Way Radio<br \/>[21] Pager<br \/>[22] Meteor Burst Communication<br \/>[23] Slow Scan Television<br \/>[24] Project West Ford<br \/>[25] Pirate Television<br \/>[26] Packet Radio Network<br \/>[27] Microbroadcast<br \/>[28] Software Defined Radio<br \/>[29] Wi-Fi<br \/>[30] Bluetooth<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Microwave Networks<br \/>[31] Microwave Radio-Relay<br \/>[32] Communications Satellite<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Wired Networks:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Electrical Wire Networks<br \/>[33] Electrical telegraph<br \/>[33.1] Electrical Printing Telegraph <br \/>[33.2] Image Telegraph<br \/>[33.3] Fire Alarm Telegraph<br \/>[33.4] Pantelegraph<br \/>[33.5] Telephonic Telegraph<br \/>[34] Telephone<br \/>[35] Wired Radio<br \/>[36] Telautograph<br \/>[37] Telefacsimile<br \/>[38] Videophone<br \/>[39] Telex<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Barbed Wire Networks<br \/>[40] Barbed Wire Telegraph<br \/>[41] Fence Phones<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Hybrid Networks:<\/strong><br \/><br \/>[42] Library<br \/>[43] Book<br \/>[44] Postal System<br \/>[44.1] Pigeon Post<br \/>[44.2] Projectile Post<br \/>[44.3] Balloon Mail<br \/>[44.4] Pony Express<br \/>[44.5] Airgraph and V-Mail<br \/>[44.6] Email Letter<br \/>[45] Sneakernet<br \/>[46] Radio Broadcast Network<br \/>[47] Broadcast Television<br \/>[48] Cable Television<br \/>[48.1] NABU<br \/>[49] Cellular Network<br \/>[50] Time-Sharing Network<br \/>[51] Teletext<br \/>[52] Videotex<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Imaginary Networks:<\/strong><br \/><br \/>[53] Necromancy<br \/>[54] Pasilalinic-Sympathetic Compass<br \/>[55] Telephonoscope<br \/>[56] Telepathy<br \/>[57] Ley Lines<br \/>[58] Mundaneum<br \/>[59] World Brain<br \/>[60] Memex<br \/>[61] Faster-Than-Light Communication Networks<br \/>[62] Project Xanadu<br \/>[63] Metaverse<br \/>[64] The Clacks<br \/>[65] Pandoran Neural Network<br \/>[66] Cosmic Internet<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alphabetical Index<br \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At long last, I can share the final table of contents for Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sour&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=59913\">Continue reading <span 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