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    18 days ago

    Telegraph was the big one, that shortened broadcast communication times from weeks to a couple days. (Receiving the news telegram -> publishing and distributing the newspaper). News ticker, teletype, and eventually, telephone were all evolutionary ideas: they relied on the same newspaper for broad dissemination.

    Radio was the next revolution, shortening news distribution from a couple days to a couple hours, bypassing the newspaper and going directly to the public. TV was a relatively small evolution of radio. It didn’t increase the speed or breadth of distribution; it only expanded the scope of what was distributed.

    The internet was a big revolution. Cloud computing was another evolutionary idea. AI is a rather small evolutionary take off from that.