THe effects of computing power on communication. I found it interesting about the first radio stations were all "pirate" radio, or "serious" amateurs that were essentially playing their own music and talking about what they wanted to talk about. Reminds me of something else that we have today.

Through the telegraph, radio, television, I think the world opened up to many people. What was once not thought about or just left to the imagination could now be seen. At the same time TV curbed the line of reality into illusion.

Over time and the evolution of technology applying computing power to communication makes things faster. The example that was given about th 1755 earthquake in Lisbon and how no one knew about it for months, the author stated that of the happened to day within seconds a blanket of electronic media would cover most of the world. And well, we saw this with the Tsunami, something that happpened clear across the globe and we knew about instantaneously. Prior to the web, there was this affect with TV, and prior to TV with radio, and prior to radio, the telegraph.