🌊 Ripple · counterfactual
What if the telephone had gone differently?
1876 · north-america
The human voice becomes something you can send down a wire.
If it had gone differently: Business and government keep running on letters and telegrams; the pace of decisions stays a day slow.
What it set up
- 1991The World Wide Web, Networked computers stay the preserve of universities and corporations; there is no open web for anyone to publish to.
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