"From codes and signals to social media, communication inventions advance the ways we interact with one another. Humorous text follows these inventions throughout history, showing how one invention often led to another--or how some inventions didn't turn out so well."-- Provided by publisher.

Includes index.

Introduction -- Language -- Writing it down -- Printing -- Sending out signals -- Telephone -- Radio -- Code -- TV and video -- Computers -- The internet -- You know? -- Preposterous predictions.