For this week’s response, I will talk about Brian Winston’s article “The Capture of Sound”. In this article, Winston talks about the invention of the telephone. He starts the article with “it is unlikely that Philip Reiss, researcher into Helmholtz’s wave theory, was particularly looking for a system to transmit the human voice”(Winston, 1998). I find this interesting because, from the time when the telephone was invented to modern technology now, society has advanced very far. The invention of the telephone led to many things. We went from the telegraph to wireless and portable phones.  Not only new technology but new ways of communicating with each other. However, this is a good and bad thing. Back when the telephone was invented, people used that and communicated face to face. Nowadays, we have more than the telephone to rely on for communicating with other people. The boom of the telephone ultimately influenced this change in how we communicate with others. The only bad aspect is that we rely a lot on technology to communicate with others which I will guess was not the idea back when the telephone was first invented. It was made to use for communication and to expand on that, however, in today’s society it has expanded at an alarming rate.

 

Brian Winston. “The Capture of Sound.” Media Technology and Society: A History: From the Telegraph to the Internet. Routledge, 1998.