{"id":11,"date":"2004-02-04T00:53:11","date_gmt":"2004-02-04T07:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=11"},"modified":"2004-02-04T00:53:11","modified_gmt":"2004-02-04T07:53:11","slug":"the-velocity-of-the-electrical-impulse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2004\/02\/04\/the-velocity-of-the-electrical-impulse\/","title":{"rendered":"The Velocity of the Electrical Impulse"},"content":{"rendered":"

My new favorite quote of some indeterminate time period is:<\/p>\n

\n“The fastest mail express, or the swiftest ocean ship, are as naught compared with the velocity of the electrical impulse which annihilates any terrestrial dimension.”\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

– Capt. George Squier, U.S. Army Signal Corps, 1901<\/p>\n

Quoted in: Allison, Juliann Emmons. “Information and International Politics” in Technology, Development, and Democracy.<\/i> Edited by Juliann Emmons Allison. \u00a9 2002 State University of New York Press, Albany. p. 29-30.<\/p>\n

It’s a nifty quote that I’ve found which will be working its way into my thesis<\/a>, which I’ve been working more on today. I have my first full chapter (ie, 20-25 pages) due on Friday. I’ve got about 12 pages done of that already, and hope to finish it tomorrow afternoon. I’m starting on Chapter II: Telecommunications History & Economic Effects. It’s due in 12 weeks. Jeez, that’s only two clicks over on my iCal.<\/p>\n

Time for bed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My new favorite quote of some indeterminate time period is: “The fastest mail express, or the swiftest ocean ship, are as naught compared with the velocity of the electrical impulse which annihilates any terrestrial dimension.” – Capt. George Squier, U.S. Army Signal Corps, 1901 Quoted in: Allison, Juliann Emmons. “Information and International Politics” in Technology, Development, and Democracy. Edited by Juliann Emmons Allison. \u00a9 2002 State University of New York Press, Albany. p. 29-30. It’s a nifty quote that I’ve…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-general","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-b","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}