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It's Showtime!

It's Showtime!

Toward the end of the nineteenth century, print began to show the early signs of its replacement. Its replacement was to be the Age of Show Business.

In the middle of the 19th century, two ideas laid the foundation for the Age of Show Business:

  • Transportation and communication are disengaged from each other
  • Space was not an inevitable constraint on the movement of information

The solution to these problems was electricity. The telegraph wrapped the continent in an information grid and created the possibility of a unified American discourse. 

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