Constant Touch: A Global History of the Mobile Phone - Hardcover

Jon Agar is currently Senior Lecturer in Science and Technology Studies at University College London and was previously director of the National Archive for the History of Computing. He is the author of Science in the Twentieth Century and Beyond published by Polity Press, and the editor of the British Journal for the History of Science. He has appeared on BBC radio and BBC News in his capacity as an expert on contemporary technologies (mobile phones, ID cards) and the history of modern science and technology. He lives in London, England.

'Agar reassesses the ever-evolving nature of this multitasking machine clamped to the ears of billions ... with characteristically clear precision.' --Nature