{"product_id":"echoes-of-connection-ricardo-gomez-9798247354673","title":"Echoes of Connection: A Century of Information and Communication Technologies: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eThree families. Three continents. 150 years of technological revolution.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Sarah Johnson touches a telephone for the first time in 1878, she experiences something profound: the sudden collapse of distance, the disembodiment of voice, the strange new power of instant connection. She doesn't know it yet, but she's standing at the beginning of a revolution that will reshape human civilization.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEchoes of Connection follows three families across six generations as they encounter each major communication technology from the telegraph to artificial intelligence. In Harlem, the Johnsons navigate from switchboard operators connecting a divided city to digital rights advocates confronting algorithmic control. In Colombia's coffee country, the Garcías watch as radio, computers, and AI transform how they understand global markets and their own land. In Senegal, the Diops use the colonizer's communication tools-telegraph, radio, film, and now AI-to preserve and protect their cultural heritage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is historical fiction that asks: What does it feel like to live through technological change?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNot the sanitized version from history books, but the actual human experience-the hope and fear, the adaptation and resistance, the ways people used new tools to connect, create, resist, and preserve. From the telegraph operator encoding resistance messages in colonial West Africa to the social media worker watching algorithms amplify misinformation during a pandemic, from the radio singer in 1920s Harlem to the AI ethicist wrestling with synthetic voices in 2025.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerfect for readers who loved: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHomegoing by Yaa Gyasi\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Overstory by Richard Powers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeticulously researched. Emotionally resonant. Spanning 150 years but feeling urgently relevant to our current moment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the telephone to ChatGPT, from Harlem to Dakar to Bogotá, Echoes of Connection reveals how the machines we build to connect us also transform us-and how humans have always found ways to make technology serve their deepest needs for connection, dignity, and meaning.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ricardo Gomez\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798247354673\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/07\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 440\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.16lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.09d","brand":"Ricardo Gomez","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49172289257727,"sku":"9798247354673","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/echoes-of-connection-ricardo-gomez-9798247354673","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}