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Reference¶
Coopersmith, Jonathan. Faxed: The Rise and Fall of the Fax Machine. Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015. Chapter 1
Summary & Key Take Aways¶
Jonathan Coopersmith writes about the history and origin of the fax machine, as well as it's upbringing and downfall. In the first chapter, he explains different key characters that were involved with the creation of technology that preceded the fax machine, such as the electrochemical telegraph. The legal and moral battles between these characters were also detailed, such as the legal fight in American between Bain and Morse. Furthermore, Coopersmith went into great detail on the inner workings of these different machines, and how they changed and evolved over time.
Links¶
cultural bias blackbox successful technologies being envisioned recent technologies quickly became obsolete new opportunities fax machine data integrity
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Questions / confusion¶
[!quote|#ffd400] Highlight Paris of 1960, a capitalist anti-utopia where fax machines were common.1
why did he imagine paris like this?
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[!quote|#ffd400] Highlight a technology does not just emerge, like Athena full-blown from the head of Zeus, but it has to be pulled, pushed, promoted, mashed, prodded, poked, shifted, cajoled, and otherwise shaped.
Still holds today, even though it might not seem like it. Cool and exciting technology is not as present in the media until it is easily accessible to the general public. Take chatGPT for example. The GPT-3 model that it is using has been around for years.
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[!quote|#ffd400] Highlight Such proponents and observers hailed fax as a “coming wonder” in the 1930s, a “Cinderella” in the 1940s, a “commercial infant” in the 1950s, a “sleeping giant” in the 1960s, and an “aged infant” in the 1970s.
how fast can technology move??!!
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[!quote|#ffd400] Highlight Time after time, proponents envisioned applications years or decades ahead of their successful realization.
similar to bush envisioning new technologies that could emmerge
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[!quote|#ffd400] Highlight of how demand-driven markets can bypass a theoretically superior technology in favor of less sophisticated but more practical products.
what are more current examples of this?
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[!quote|#ffd400] Highlight Blackboxing vastly expanded not only the audience of consumers, creating growing network externalities, but also enabled entrepreneurs and experimenters to develop their own faxing applications.
blackboxing!
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[!quote|#ffd400] Highlight It is doubtful if any non-American could have prevailed against Morse.
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[!quote|#ffd400] Highlight Bain’s failures were threefold: ideas in advance of the enabling technologies of the time
ironic but understandable
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[!quote|#ffd400] Highlight listing himself as a gentlemen
bruh
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[!quote|#ffd400] Highlight This painstaking mechanical design and construction, not radically new concepts, played a significant role in the success of Caselli.
his success was found by employing the best of the best, not necessarily his own skills / ideas.
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[!quote|#ffd400] Highlight He settled in Siena, where he became the city school director before his death in 1871.
why do these inventors always end up doing something weird and die after their invention becomes obsolete?
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[!quote|#ffd400] Highlight Caselli did, however, spark the first Japanese interest in facsimile.
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[!quote|#ffd400] Highlight Sending photographs at the same speed as articles promised to radically alter the role of photography in newspapers
made me think of secondary job prospects that emmerge from new inventions. Of course, newspaper sales would rise, fax machine sales would rise, but a secondary effect of this would be that there is an high demand for photographers. It may be helpful to look for this type of opportunity, as there are thousands of people trying to invent new fax machines, but maybe not as many for photography.
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