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“content” obsession of the man of print culture makes it
difficult for him to notice any facts about the form of a new
medium:
Telstar, as you know, is that complicated ball that
whirls through space, transmitting television broadcasts,
telephone messages, and everything except common
sense. When it was first cast aloft, trumpets sounded.
Continents would share each other’s intellectual
pleasures. Americans would enjoy Brigitte Bardot.
Europeans would partake of the heady intellectual
stimulation of “Ben Casey.”. . . The fundamental flaw in
this communications miracle is the same one that has
bugged every communications miracle since they started
carving hieroglyphics on stone tablets. What do you say
on it? Telstar went into operation in August when almost