Since the very beginning of electronic communication, we were warned about the light-speed cultural wasteland we were stringing together. Wh...
Since the very beginning of electronic communication, we were warned about the light-speed cultural wasteland we were stringing together. When Henry David Thoreau first heard about the telegraph, he surmised, “We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.” He lamented that the first… Read More
