City Of Light: The Story Of Fiber Optics (Sloan Technology)

Computers you notice. They sit on your desk and hum, ever smaller, ever faster, and always obselete if bought longer ago than last week. But the equally impressive technology that turns millions of terminals into a global network is less obvious. The phone line that comes into your house probably still pushes electrons through metal. But not far away the signal will join millions of others rela…