From Gutenberg to Google and on to AI: The History of Our Future [Paperback]

The two great Western technological revolutions of the past, the invention of movable type in the fifteenth century and the Industrial Revolution of the eighteenth century, changed the course of economies and societies and radically altered how humans interacted with each other and their world. In this updated edition ofFrom Gutenberg to Google, former FCC chairman Tom Wheeler takes up a still unfolding transformational revolution in twenty-first century technology: artificial intelligence. Building on insights on connectivity developed in the previous edition, Wheeler describes the enormous potential of this fast-expanding and powerful technology and highlights the urgent need for governments across the globe to regulate its use, both to limit opportunities for harm and to engage its capabilities for good.Before he became chairman of the Federal Communications Commission in 2013,Tom Wheelerstarted or helped found several companies offering new cable, wireless, and video communications services. He is also a historian with a deep interest in how the events and trends of today reflector dontwhat happened in the past.

Sometimes we have to take a step back in order to understand whats under our noses. With his entertaining account of three historical network revolutions, and the reactions they inspired, Tom Wheeler gives us the tools to understand the one we are living through todayand where it might take us tomorrow. Tom Standage, author, The Victorian Internet

A fascinating review of 500 years of new technology and the challenges as well as opportunities of technological change. Steve Case, American entrepreneur, founder AOL

Tom WheelersFrom Gutenberg to Googlecontains page after page of insight about the unexpected ways in which technologiesfrom movable type and the telegraph to blockchainhave altered what we know and do. Drawing on his sure-footed command of the history of networks and from his time on the regulatl3Ü