On 22/10/2019 13:45, [email protected] wrote:
> I don't get what you mean with balloon/diplomats/bombs.
Diplomats would sit around the table and talk
Then the balloon was invented, military uses became apparent and it
wasn't necessary to talk to your neighbours any more. You could just
fly balloons over their country. Even if you had no bombs, people would
panic at the sight of a balloon.
In 1907 a treaty was created prohibiting the use of balloons to drop bombs:
https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/ihl/INTRO/245
and then the diplomats could return to settling disputes through
dialogue... until aeroplanes and V2 missiles came along, they weren't
subject to the same treaty.
> Yes, wireless (and wired) communications changed the way people using
> them communicated. But only a slight minority used them, for a very long
> time. Italy in 1987 was not exactly a third-world country, still some
> people (a minority) starting a new family in a new home did not bother
> to install a telephone for some months. I consider this fact as an
> element suggesting phone penetration was not 100% and I'm sure those
> without a telephone did not use wireless 2-way communications. Broadcast
> is not relevant to "the way people [...] talked together". Furthermore,
> telephone calls are (almost) always 1-on-1. The only many-to-many mass
> technologies are tables and the public Internet.
> [An italian radio broadcaster, Radio Radicale, in 1986 for one month
> connected directly its voicemail to the antenna. For one month, messages
> registered by callers were broadcast without moderation. Some callers
> started replying to other callers. I'd consider this mass, many-to-many,
> not table, not internet, but it was an exception.]
The phenomena referred to is not simply about the Internet: it is a
combination of different things, for example, the mobile phone + the
Internet + social media together perhaps.
Regards,
Daniel
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