September 2010
5 posts
The more things change . . .
We think that our on demand, 24/7, need-it-now obsession with news and information is something new, but it isn’t. Here’s author and journalist William Lette Stone writing in 1872 about the amazing difference in communication time between the 18th and 19th centuries.
“What a contrast between that day and our own! Then news from England five months old was fresh and racy. Now we must...