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Heroes of the Telegraph
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John Munro
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Correspondence
can
be
carried
on
by
phonograms,
distant
friends
and
lovers
being
able
thus
to
hear
each
other's
accents
as
though
they
were
together,
a
result
more
conducive
to
harmony
and
good
feeling
than
letter-writing.
In
matters
of
business
and
diplomacy
the
phonogram
will
teach
its
users
to
be
brief,
accurate,
and
honest
in
their
speech;
for
the
phonograph
is
a
mechanical
memory
more
faithful
than
the
living
one.
Its
evidence
may
even
be
taken
in
a
court
of
law
in
place
of
documents,
and
it
is
conceivable
that
some
important
action
might
be
settled
by
the
voice
of
this
DEUS
EX
MACHINA.
Will
it
therefore
add
a
new
terror
to
modern
life?
Shall
a
visitor
have
to
be
careful
what
he
says
in
a
neighbour's
house,
in
case
his
words
are
stored
up
in
some
concealed
phonograph,
just
as
his
appearance
may
be
registered
by
a
detective
camera?
In
ordinary
life--no;
for
the
phonograph
has
its
limitations,
like
every
other
machine,
and
it
is
not
sufficiently
sensitive
to
record
a
conversation
unless
it
is
spoken
close
at
hand.
But
there
is
here
a
chance
for
the
sensational
novelist
to
hang
a
tale
upon.
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