do you believe in the telectroscope?

An Account of a Visit to the Telectroscope

Benjamin Carnys has very kindly sent me a link to his entertaining and informative article about a visit to the Telectroscope. It starts thus:

"London is a town of many patient wonders. The architecture of a thousand years gives the city a chaotic, hapharzard quality; as a visitor, you can never be sure what marvels you might find waiting around the next corner.

It was, therefore, considerable good fortune with which I learned how the serendipity of the City might lie in wait on the banks of the River Thames, a stone’s throw from the Tower Bridge. There may be found the Telectroscope, a wonder almost unparalleled, even among all the great cities of the Earth."

The full article can be read here>>

Journey to America

Paul St George writes:

Tim, I am going to the Brooklyn end of the tunnel tomorrow. Perhaps we can wave at each other? Would anyone like to meet me in Brooklyn? I would like to see people trying some more experimental ways of communicating through the Telectroscope. Perhaps this week?

I Believe in the Telectroscope

So I have been and I have seen. I believe:

Now the only big question is what the hell do we use this exciting device for? Scribbling short messages on whiteboards surely cannot be the total sum of our endeavours.

Admittedly, some enterprising individuals have attempted synchronised dancing (to YMCA by the Village People?!) and one Englishman has tried to start a Transatlantic fight. But I'm looking for something more meaningful, somehow life-transforming! Am I asking too much?

I read somewhere recently that you can tell a new technology is reaching a level of acceptance and maturity when someone uses it to get married. History is littered with examples of the first marriage by telephone, the first marriage on TV, the first marriage on the Internet etc etc.

I am already married. So that is an experiment others will have to try. Me, I'd be keen to initiate some kind of game.

Telectroscopic chess anyone?