Person

Tom Standage

Technology historian comparing the Victorian telegraph to modern internet social dynamics.

Why this matters

Standage shows new media reinventing old dramas of rumor, speed, and authority.

Focus in observatory

Works

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The Victorian Internet

Standage, Tom. *The Victorian Internet*. New York: Walker & Company, 1998.

Related books

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How Meaning Moves

Signal, Compression, Restraint, and the Pace of Understanding

Before people disagree, they interpret. How meaning forms through signal, compression, and restraint—long before anyone is obviously wrong, and often while the sentence is still forming.