Constant Touch

手机是一项无处不在且拥有引人入胜发展历程的技术。如今，全球手机数量已与人口数量相当。无论身处何地，我们都会随身携带。尽管过去我们仅用其通话，如今的手机已能完成各类任务——从通话到社交，从游戏娱乐到账单支付。乔恩·阿加（Jon Agar）通过解构手机剖析其运作原理，进而重构其发展脉络，揭示其在美国、欧洲、远东和非洲等不同国家背景下的发展轨迹。他完整讲述了这项技术从早期与汽车和特权阶层的关联，到取得巨大商业成功，直至智能手机崛起的演进历程。鲜有科学革命能像手机发展这样深入渗透我们的日常生活。乔恩·阿加（Jon Agar）精妙的历史解析清晰阐释了这场革命的形成机制，并展望了其未来可能的发展方向。

Mobile phones are a ubiquitous technology with a fascinating history. There are n...

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手机是一项无处不在且拥有引人入胜发展历程的技术。如今，全球手机数量已与人口数量相当。无论身处何地，我们都会随身携带。尽管过去我们仅用其通话，如今的手机已能完成各类任务——从通话到社交，从游戏娱乐到账单支付。乔恩·阿加（Jon Agar）通过解构手机剖析其运作原理，进而重构其发展脉络，揭示其在美国、欧洲、远东和非洲等不同国家背景下的发展轨迹。他完整讲述了这项技术从早期与汽车和特权阶层的关联，到取得巨大商业成功，直至智能手机崛起的演进历程。鲜有科学革命能像手机发展这样深入渗透我们的日常生活。乔恩·阿加（Jon Agar）精妙的历史解析清晰阐释了这场革命的形成机制，并展望了其未来可能的发展方向。

Mobile phones are a ubiquitous technology with a fascinating history. There are now as many mobile phones in the world as there are people. We carry them around with us wherever we go. And while we used to just speak into them, now mobiles are used to do all kinds of tasks, from talking to twittering, from playing a game to paying a bill.

Jon Agar takes the mobile to pieces, tracing what makes it work, and puts it together again, showing how it was shaped in different national contexts in the United States, Europe, the Far East and Africa. He tells the story from the early associations with cars and the privileged, through its immense popular success, to the rise of the smartphone.Few scientific revolutions affect us in such a day-to-day way as the development of the mobile phone. Jon Agar's deft history explains exactly how this revolution has come about - and where it may lead in the future.

Part One: World in bits
1. What’s in a phone?
2. Save the ether
3. The cellular idea
Part two: Different countries, different paths tomobility
4. Born in the USA
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Part One: World in bits
1. What’s in a phone?
2. Save the ether
3. The cellular idea
Part two: Different countries, different paths tomobility
4. Born in the USA
5. The Nordic way
6. Europe before GSM: La Donna èMobile, Männer sind nicht!
7. GSM: European union
8. Digital America divided
9. Mob rule: competition and class in the UK
10. Decommunisation = capitalist power + cellularisation
11. Japanese garden
12. For richer, for poorer: India and China

Part three: Mobile cultures
13. Txt msgs
14. Txt Power
15. Two organisations in the Congo
16. M-Africa
17. The Nokia way – to the Finland base station!
18. Mobile phones as a threat tohealth
19. Cars, phones and crime
20. Phone hacking: a very British scandal
21. Phones on film
Part four: Smartphones
22. Intimately personal computers
23. 3G: a cellular world made bystandards
24. Apple
25. Apple’s rivals
26. Blood on the smartphone
27. Smartphone culture
28. Cellular war
29. The revolution will not bemobilised
30. Oases of quiet
31. Perpetuum mobile?
Bibliography
Index
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