The Death of Distance: How the Communications Revolution will Change Our Lives, by Frances Cairncross.
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During two months, in 1951, Cairncross turned over 1, 339 pages some of them important enough to be reviewed by Stalin.
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Those quibbles aside, Frances Cairncross deserves her generous lead in the voting, for having taken a strong position and making it into an even stronger one.