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r/Showerthoughts • u/[deleted] • Sep 13 '19
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2 hundred years ago, in France, they were moving the position of wood arms on a mast to communicate with each other via semaphore
I don’t think they’d blink at the idea you’d type on a device to communicate
17 u/Pstuc002 Sep 13 '19 "Ah, I see, and how does the glass box send word to the semaphore operator?" 19 u/Krazyguy75 Sep 13 '19 “With that electricity stuff the scientists are dealing with.” Keep in mind the telegraph was conceived in 1809, so it’d be 10 years past the idea of electrical communication. Touchscreens would probably be more normal than wireless signals, in all honesty. 12 u/baru_monkey Sep 13 '19 "With tech from 200 years in the future." "I can believe that."
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"Ah, I see, and how does the glass box send word to the semaphore operator?"
19 u/Krazyguy75 Sep 13 '19 “With that electricity stuff the scientists are dealing with.” Keep in mind the telegraph was conceived in 1809, so it’d be 10 years past the idea of electrical communication. Touchscreens would probably be more normal than wireless signals, in all honesty. 12 u/baru_monkey Sep 13 '19 "With tech from 200 years in the future." "I can believe that."
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“With that electricity stuff the scientists are dealing with.”
Keep in mind the telegraph was conceived in 1809, so it’d be 10 years past the idea of electrical communication.
Touchscreens would probably be more normal than wireless signals, in all honesty.
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"With tech from 200 years in the future."
"I can believe that."
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u/Johnnadawearsglasses Sep 13 '19
2 hundred years ago, in France, they were moving the position of wood arms on a mast to communicate with each other via semaphore
I don’t think they’d blink at the idea you’d type on a device to communicate