Hold the Line — Real Life
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On the emergence of a folklore of screens
Hold the Line On the emergence of a folklore of screens Lauren Fadiman August 15, 2022 share Image: Unleashed (2021) by Sean Banister . Courtesy the artist. Seven years before Nikola Tesla imagined (in a 1926 interview with Collier’s ) a future in which wireless connection would allow us to “see and hear one another as though we were face to face” with “instruments … [that] fit in our vest pockets,” the British cartoonist W.K. Haselden published his own prophetic comic in the Daily Mirror . It depicts a harried gentleman disturbed at the most inopportune moments by his “pocket telephone,” whic
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