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would want a communications machine that did not leave a written record of the conversation, as telegrams did. When William Orton, the president of Western Union, which was the Microsoft of its day, was offered the opportunity to buy Alexander Graham Bell's patent on the telephone for a hundred thousand doll
ys? I took this as a sign I was becoming a digital guy. Around the same time, I read an essay in Wired magazine by Paul Saffo, who is a director of the Institute for the Future, a think tank in Menlo Park, which argued that the information highway is going to cause a flowering of personal expression not seen in our society
ould want a communications machine that did not leave a written =record of the conversation, as telegrams did. When William Orton, the president of Western Union, which was the Microsoft of its day, was offered the opportunity to buy Alexander Graham Bell's patent on the telephone for a hundred thousand dolla
ys? I took this as a sign I was becoming a digital guy. Around the same time, I read an essay in Wired magazine by Paul =Saffo, who is a director of the Institute for the Future, a think tank =in Menlo Park, which argued that the information highway is going to cause a flowering of personal expression not seen in our societ
ould want a communications machine that did not leave a written =record of the conversation, as telegrams did. When William Orton, the president of Western Union, which was the Microsoft of its day, was offered the opportunity to buy Alexander Graham Bell's patent on the telephone for a hundred thousand dolla
ys? I took this as a sign I was becoming a digital guy. Around the same time, I read an essay in Wired magazine by Paul =Saffo, who is a director of the Institute for the Future, a think tank =in Menlo Park, which argued that the information highway is going to cause a flowering of personal expression not seen in our societ
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