voice-nerves

Updated: May 6, 2025

We have established in every large region of population a system of voice-nerves that puts every man at every other man's ear, and which so magically eliminates the factor of distance that the United States becomes three thousand miles of neighbors, side by side. This effort to conquer Time and Space is above all else the instinct of material progress.

Herbert Newton Casson - The History of the Telephone