Ch 5: A Nervous System for the Earth

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Comment on one of these two quotes from the book:

1. "Because the telegraph was an information technology, it served as an agent of its own ascendency." [p. 146] 

2. "A message had seemed to be a physical object.  That was always an illusion; now people needed consciously to divorce their conception of the message from the paper on which it was written." [p. 151] 

What is encoding?

Why would one want to conceal information?

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