Telegraph Doomers of the 19th Century
The electric telegraph was a BIG deal. Its impact on the flow of information in the 19th and 20th century was akin to the internet in the 21st. And like the web, telegraphy brought rapid changes in society along with very familiar anxieties and criticisms. (Book Rec: ‘The Victorian Internet’ by Tom Standage) The Ivory Tower Telegraph Doomers In the 1880s telegraphy was common place; the annihilation of time and space - between towns, cities and even continents wasn’t so strange....