PPT Slide
The future of telework in the information society
copyright Noel Hodson SW2000 Telework Studies
To forecast the future - first visit the past.
The pace of change varies: Inventions come first and fast
Societal change takes a lot longer
Alexander Bain invented the fax machine in 1843
Newspapers first sent photographs by fax in 1918
Marconi radioed across the Atlantic in 1901
Alexander Baird demonstrated colour TV in 1938
Regular colour TV transmissions from 1950
EdBonza Broadcast History Timeline
The Postmaster General in 1625 marvelled that letters
were carried “faster than thought”
in three days from London to Edinburgh.
The One-Penny stamp came in 1840 after 120 years of debate.