What Is the Most Overrated Invention?
May 12, 2019
2 minutes
Lee Jackson, author, Palaces of Pleasure
As early as 1858, magazine commented on the prospect of new technology creating “house telegraphs” that would put one constantly “within five minutes of every noodle who wants to ask you a question … every acquaintance who has a favour to beg, or a disagreeable thing to communicate.”
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