A Call from the 21st Century focuses on the existing and emerging technologies of telecommunications and their practical use in essential customer service applications. The -Provides insight into the technologies of tomorrow. -Examines the digitization of the global economy. -Discusses the evolution of the telephone as a mass media appliance. -Predicts the radical transformation of consumer marketing. -Provides a pragmatic look at the technologies that will affect Internet, cable modems, wireless phones, integrated services digital network, asynchronous transfer mode, and video telephony.