Erin Pettigrew

Jan 09 2009 LINK
“ The telephone was justly regarded as an ingenious invention when it was first brought before the public, but it is destined to be entirely eclipsed by the new invention of the phonograph.
— Wisdom from an 1877 article in The New York Times. (via a smart O’Reilly Radar piece that cleverly unhinges some of the fearful hype around the death of print)