“We know enough to be sure that the scientific achievements of the next fifty years will be far greater, more rapid, and more surprising, than those we have already experienced. ... Wireless telephones and television, following naturally upon the their present path of development, would enable their owner to connect up to any room similarly equipped and hear and take part in the conversation as well as if he put his head in through the window.” IfsKnowsYearsWellsEnoughScienceNextRoomsKnowledgePathGreaterTelevisionDevelopmentConversationAchievementWindowFollowingFiftyOwnersSurprisingTelephonesRapidsWireless Author:Winston Churchill
“The telephone conversation is, by its very nature, reactive, not reflective. Immediacy is its prime virtue. ... The letter, written in absorbed solitude, is an act of faith: it assumes the presence of humanity: world and self are generated from within: loneliness is courted, not feared. To write a letter is to be alone with my thoughts in the conjured presence of another person. I keep myself imaginative company. I occupy the empty room.” WorldWritingPersonsSelfHumanityRoomsCompanyVirtueWrittenLonelinessSolitudeConversationEmptyLettersAssumingPrimeTelephonesMy ThoughtsImaginativeImmediacyEmpty Rooms Author:Vivian Gornick
“We're living in a state where no one can trust his telephone conversations, nor even his personal conversations in a room, in a bar or anywhere else.” StatesRoomsModernConversationBarsTelephonesModern Life Author:Walter Cronkite