Telephones Caught in Between

Computers Are Bad a newsletter by J. B. Crawford ☞ Archive ☞ Subscribe ☞ RSS telephones caught in between 2026-08-02 During the heyday of AT&T, it was often said that the telephone system was the largest machine ever built. The "hello machine" certainly was vast, but whether or not you consider it to be a single machine raises challenging questions of definition. The Internet, I think we can all agree, is not a single machine but a system of interconnected ones. T