Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Abstract
It exudes a state of euphoric glee i.e., our system at work! The most recent
episode of this situation comedy (called "free enterprise") was entitled: "It
works, it's reliable and cheap so let's dump it!"
Thus, it can be argued that the world's only working reliable
economical telecommunications system was scrapped to satisfy the desires
of a handful of entrepreneurs. Basically, individuals who had discovered
that a string of radio transmitter/receiver combinations, once installed,
could make money because such devices require very little attention if
done right and would nearly run forever just add electricity!published or submitted for publicatio
