The development of the Ironclad therefore created a signalling problem exactly as the development of the railway had; and just as the telegraph began as a solution to the railway's problem, so the wirelesse telegraph began as a solution to the ironclad's.
Brian Winston (71)
Uniqueness does not of itself automatically overcome inertia - industrial conservatism and commercial penny-pinching.
Brian Winston (72)
Media Technology and Society
This, of course, is pure rear-view mirrorism, seeing the old environment in the mirror of the new one while ignoring the nwe one.
Marshall McLuhan (18)
War and Peace in the Global Village
