telephone
n. A device for extending miscommunications great distances. The absence of face-to-face interaction amplifies the effects.
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n. An invention whose chief purpose is to make a disagreeable person keep his distance.
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Cynical Quotations
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
— Sir William Preece, chief engineer of the British Post Office, 1876
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