It was humanity’s first taste of mass communications, and immediately triggered the same concerns about information overload, frivolous communications, loss of privacy, and moral corruption that today we blame on the internet.
1881: A Telegraphic Cataclysmtrello1881
Global telegraphy could screw with earths currents and disorder the universe.
🔗 timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1881/02/19/103399997.html?pageNumber=4
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