"Over the last many centuries, human beings innovated different methods of transferring information to distant places with ever-improving quality and efficiency. They brought information revolution, which transformed the entire world into a global village. It took place in varied periods of history and the most notable of them was set off by invention of the printing press in the fifteenth century.

Information Revolution has now taken a new form of "electronic interdependence," an era when electronic media replace the culture producing new social organizations. The electronic technologies of telephone, radio, television, computers and internet and their interpretation by renowned scholars in social context have caused information explosion. Traditional understandings of space and time have been collapsed by the current speed of electronic transmissions.

This book provides information on the lives of the ten great thinkers writers, scientists and engineers of all times who pioneered information revolution. It encompasses their biographical accounts, innovations and individual contribution to the society." (jacket)