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Faxed - The Rise and Fall of the Fax Machine (Hardcover)
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Faxed - The Rise and Fall of the Fax Machine (Hardcover)
Series: Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology
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Faxed is the first history of the facsimile machine-the most famous
recent example of a tool made obsolete by relentless technological
innovation. Jonathan Coopersmith recounts the multigenerational,
multinational history of the device from its origins to its
workplace glory days, in the process revealing how it helped create
the accelerated communications, information flow, and vibrant
visual culture that characterize our contemporary world. Most
people assume that the fax machine originated in the computer and
electronics revolution of the late twentieth century, but it was
actually invented in 1843. Almost 150 years passed between the
fax's invention in England and its widespread adoption in
tech-savvy Japan, where it still enjoys a surprising popularity.
Over and over again, faxing's promise to deliver messages
instantaneously paled before easier, less expensive modes of
communication: first telegraphy, then radio and television, and
finally digitalization in the form of email, the World Wide Web,
and cell phones. By 2010, faxing had largely disappeared, having
fallen victim to the same technological and economic processes that
had created it. Based on archival research and interviews spanning
two centuries and three continents, Coopersmith's book recovers the
lost history of a once-ubiquitous technology. Written in accessible
language that should appeal to engineers and policymakers as well
as historians, Faxed explores themes of technology push and market
pull, user-based innovation, and "blackboxing" (the packaging of
complex skills and technologies into packages designed for novices)
while revealing the inventions inspired by the fax, how the demand
for fax machines eventually caught up with their availability, and
why subsequent shifts in user preferences rendered them mostly
passe.
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