Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 10:24:29 -0400
Subject: [WSFA] The March of Technology
From: Michael Walsh <walshmichaelj at gmail.com>
To: WSFA Official List <wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com>, WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

"Superficial, sudden, unsifted, too fast for the truth, must be all
telegraphic intelligence. Does it not render the popular mind too fast
for the truth? Ten days bring us the mails from Europe. What need is
there for the scraps of news in ten minutes? How trivial and paltry is
the telegraphic column?"

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/07/in-1858-people-said-the-telegraph-was-too-fast-for-the-truth/375171/

mjw