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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