The 1980s were a turbulent decade. It was an era of sweeping British workers' strikes, the shocking crashes of the Japanese and American stock markets, Japan's economic collapse after the yen appreciated, and a volatile standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union. Countries cooperated and competed with one another. Football king Diego Maradona burst onto the scene. But above all, the decade saw a revolutionary transformation in technology: computers, the internet, and communications advanced by leaps and bounds...
