When Old Technologies Were New: Thinking About Electric Communication in the Late Nineteenth Century

Categories: Computers & Technology, History

Carolyn Marvin explores how the telephone and electric light were imagined and debated when they were new, and what that reveals about society's reactions to new technology.

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• Vinod Khosla: “Recommend reading ... Carolyn Marvin explores how two of these new inventions--the telephone and the electric light--were publicly envisioned at the end of the nineteenth century”