From the 'Victorian internet' to AI Before the telegraph, long-distance communication was painfully slow. Sending messages by ship could take months. In the 1850s, telegraph cables made it possible to ...
When we post to a group chat or talk to an AI chatbot, we don't think about how these technologies came to be. We take it for granted that we can instantly communicate. We only notice the importance ...
Jemimah Widdicombe works for the National Communication Museum (NCM) as Senior Curator. When we post to a group chat or talk to an AI chatbot, we don’t think about how these technologies came to be.