The Telephone will democratize hierarchic relations.

 

The Telephone will democratize hierarchic relations.
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Forecasting the Telephone: A Retrospective Technology Assessment. (1983), MIT Press, p. 61

 

Ithiel de Sola Pool

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For some moments after silence had come like a poultice to heal the blows of sound, all that occupied his mind was the thought of what pests the gentler sex were when they got hold of a telephone. The instrument seemed to go to their heads like a drug. Connie Keeble, for instance. Nice sensible woman when you talked to her face to face, never tried to collar the conversation and all that, but the moment she got on the telephone, it was gab, gab, gab, and all about nothing.

 

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