The electronic telegraph had come into operation a 
few years before, speeding up events, capsulating 
the past. . . . The telegraph, by speeding up 
information helped to create this new information 
environment. It led the Scandinavian existential 
philosopher, Kierkegaard to become quite alarmed 
at the prospects of man under telegraph 
conditions. His Concept of Dread  was published in 
the first year of the telegraph, 1844, and he saw