MDSA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Westinghouse Electric Corporation, John Naughton, Herbert Hoover
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Week 10: lecture #9 tuesday, march 10, 2015. Human voice remediated by telephone, telephone remediated by movie. Limitations of telephone, as a flirty device and then remediated to sth scary (movies above) Video: lily tomlin as telephone operator ernestine. Someone called a fool told him she"s a hs graduate. Phone company powerful, has our income tax and everything. The telegraph combined together almost at one moment . the opinions of the whole intelligent world with respect to everything that is passing at that time upon the face of the globe (lord salisbury, 1889). The experience limited to trained operators and confined to telegraph stations. The telephone brought the experience to the masses. It made possible the ability to experience being in two places at the same time through point-to- point transmission. It allowed communication across great distances, further collapsing space.
