Prologue: Abundance and Scarcity

Part One: New Light
1. Maxwell's Rainbow
2. The Imperial Science
3. Enter the Laser
4. The Light-Speed Limit

Part Two: The New Paradigm
5. The Road to the Fibersphere
6. The Collapse of the Seven Layers
7. The Law of the Telecosm
8. The Wireless New World
9. The Satellite Ethersphere
10. The Coming of Component Software
11. The Storewidth Paradigm

Part Three: Revolt Against Abundance
12. Betting Against Bandwidth
13. Tilting Against Monsters

Part Four: The Triumphal Telecosm
14. The Rise of a Paradigm Star
15. Deluge of Dumb Bandwidth
16. Searching for a New Intel
17. The TeraBeam Era

Part Five: The Meaning of the Light
18. The Lifespan Limit
19. The Point of Light

Afterword: The Twenty Laws of the Telecosm
Appendix A. A List of Telecosm Players
Appendix B. Nine Stars of the Telecosm
Appendix C. The Telecosm Glossary

Acknowledgements

Index