Articles Tagged with radio

Convenience rules

Driving technological change

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Monoglot music

Not about sukiyaki

What does an old song say about its times?

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Morse code

High-speed digital communication

The telegraph required a new way of writing messages.

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An audio culture

The book, the movie and the radio play

We ponder how the medium affects the story.

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Disaster this time?

Threatening technology

Kodak 1918 camera and iPhoneNew technology has been forecast to bring social disaster several times in the past.  We seem to have avoided it; but that doesn’t mean we always will.

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The lovers’ lodestone

A prehistory of wireless telegraphy

It was much more difficult to stay in touch 300 years ago.  A literary magazine from that era has a suggestion for a surprisingly modern way to do it.

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