COM 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Samuel Morse, Henry David Thoreau
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Persuasion can be twisted to seem like information and education. Popular culture (like thoreau), what everyone is doing. A speech to inform is a speech to teach. a speech to persuade is a speech to preach. Person who actually did it after using everyone"s synthesized information. When it broke, you could use a code (morse code) After this, he knew the world would never be the same. Telephone invented by alexander graham bell (1876) Wireless telegraph invented by william marconi (1896) Marconi set on the ship sent out sos, but other ships (less than 10 miles. People on the mainland knew away) didn"t have this new technology. Law soon passed that all ships had to have a marconi device. Technological miracles are performed, then no one cares. Inventions do not count until a patent is filed. Ex: self driven cars will be ubiquitous by the time our kids are learning to drive .