Chapter 5 response

Telegraphy began the ages of technology. Although we think now it isn’t up to technology compared to today but back then it was very important. The discourse of telegraphy began the stages of “broken time and broken attention.” (Lewis Mumford) In the reading it expresses the telegraphs initial hope was to bring about a form to technology to transport information. Now a day we take the new and improving technology and mold the information we receive to form media. With this altercation of technology that I think is what is causing the misuse of it today. Also throughout the chapter there are many different forms expressed that also portray the language of communication. Forms like, photography, books, and many more can speak in many different forms. With the combination of photograph and telegraph came films. This sparked a whole new array of technology that is still growing today. This is where the title of the chapter ties in, Peek-a-Boo!! Like the child’s game of peek-a-boo, television and film brought about a form of entertainment that is endlessly entertaining. With the advances of television and movies, it put off a sense of a core social universe. This universe that everyone thinks they should occupy. By this thinking, that gives people a mindset that they are never satisfied and always want more. Even though it is unrealistic and on television that is still what people think.