End-to-End
Forthcoming in the March, 2023 issue of Locus Magazine.
10 min readJan 15
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Within the very first year of operation, 1878, Bell’s company learned a sharp lesson about combining teenage boys and telephone switchboards…they played clever tricks with the switchboard plugs: disconnecting calls, crossing lines so that customers found themselves talking to strangers, and so forth.
-Bruce Sterling, The…
