#book #technology #innovation #communication #modernism > "The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-Line Pioneers" I read this book back in [[2007]] and found it very inspiring. The invention of the telegraph that led to... - Couples getting married "online" - Newstickers - Chat rooms - Digital Mailboxes - Highly-paid "morse-code jokeys" (Like HTML in the 90s) - How instantaneous communication changed the outcomes of wars - Money everywhere on the planet ## Questions - Does [[Non-Linear Time]] exist if things repeat like this? Part of [[The Victorian Age]].