Netflix has encountered problems in the recent third quarter as a result of a change in its business model. Similar to the changing face of how we receive and interact with news, Netflix has altered the way we interact with films. When the change from spoken to written to printed news occurred, there was less […]
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The Occupy Wall Street protest has surprisingly reached the one month mark. While the media at large still has not validated the protestors, it has taken more notice of them. The protests, beginning on Sept. 17, started as a small grass roots idea. The concept was to get the power of governing back into the […]
Although Thucydides was a very well-respected writer, he would have had no place in today’s world of reporting. Let’s face it. Thucydides was writing the stories of his life not to spread the word of current events, but to give deeper examination of the world in which he was living. Thucydides made literary works of […]
While electrical telegraphy had proved beneficial since the early 1840s — even phasing out the Pony Express as the main news transmitter– there was one major imitation: wires. The transmission was the fastest of its time. However, wires limited where that signal could be sent. In order to send a message, telegraph wires had to connect the sending […]
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One of the most influential technological advances of the mid to late 19th century was the telegraph. The telegraph had the ability to drastically cut the travel time for news and other information. Samuel F.B. Morse, the inventor of Morse code, along with his assistant, Alfred Vail, created the first electrical telegraph. After several successful […]
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Few people could be considered visionaries of their time. Michael Stern Hart, the founder of Project Gutenberg, could be seen as one of these rare visionaries. In 1971, it was far fetched to imagine the progression of technology to its current levels. Yet, Michael Hart was able to see the continuous need for books and […]
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