Anyone seen the movie Pillow Talk?

As the title suggests, I won’t be getting very deep here. As I was reading about the phone I thought of that silly Doris Day movie and wondered if phone networks were conceived of sooner could have been a mass entertainment supervening necessity as strong as the business one? I bring this up because the author mentions the ‘Lovers Telegraph’ fad. I think people were the same then as they are now, and would have liked to talk on the phone. There might have even been a need for a speaker phone so the whole family could sit in the parlor and chat with Aunt Betty. The success of the record for entertainment demonstrates that there was a consumer market out there with discretionary spending.

I really enjoyed the “Informing Ourselves to Death” and had to wonder what kind of reception he received in a room full of computer scientists after he finished. Remembering where computers were in 1990 the speed seems quite prophetic. I love this part

“…brilliant young men and women, believing this, create ingenious things for the computer to do, hoping that in this way, we will become wiser and more decent and more noble. And who can blame them? By becoming masters of this wondrous technology, they will acquire prestige and power and some will even become famous.”

Does this make anyone else think of the dot com bubble and subsequent burst?