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Mind Over Matter: Electrical Telegraphy,e saw in the previous chapter. It also shows the railway line and telegraph line gradually converging to a point outside the pictorial frame as if they would inevitably come together at some other place in space and point in time in the future neither of which are part of this story, of this moment.

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,Magician’s Bower and Monstrous Mechanical: The Car as Communication Technology,n and transportation device. The car, for Sachs (1992, p. 116) and Virilio (1991b, p. 21), is ‘a means of communication’, not only in the clichéd sense that it is a mode of transportation, but also in the sense that the driver (and his or her passengers) communicates with the landscape —built or oth

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Orbiting in the Sublime Company of Heavenly Bodies: Satellites from Cold War to Gulf War,l extraterrestrial space it began rather than for its contribution to communications. Although the world-shattering significance of the launch of the first Sputnik in 1957 may escape us, it did not escape the notice of contemporary reporters and philosophers at the time. Writing in the following yea

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The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace and the Slimy Swamps of War: Computers and the Internet,e and an invention of the human mind and a creation of the human hand. What Karl Marx (1987, p. 92) in his economic manuscripts of 1857—1858 (the . argued in relation to some of those precursors can also be applied to the computer:

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Crude Conqueror of Nature: Steam Railways, hills in the background. Whether this smoke is rising from a fire inside a friendly settler’s cottage or from a threatening Amerindigenes’ open fire is another question, though in this location at that time it is probably the former (for a reproduction, see Ellis 1998).