Morse Code and Telegraph
tags:: #Memex2 #Lecture
Morse Code, Telegraph:¶
- Electricity and magnets improve society by getting rid of distance
- People are always looking for ways to improve communication, electricity got people thinking about how messages can be sent more efficiently
- Competence
- Winstons model
- Inventions can go sideways
- Patterns for the telegraph can be linked to modern devices
- Patent battles, who invented what and when
- Acceleration vs deceleration of inventions
- Newspaper plagiarism graph maps one to one with the emergence of the telegraph
- If distance is collapsed, if messages can be sent thousands of miles in seconds, What's stopping states from expanding their reach?
