Historical, Nostalgia, Technology

The Series of Tubes

Posted by ⋅ Apr 17, 2009 ⋅ Leave a Comment
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Communication of information and documents over great distances has improved remarkably over the past decades, but former Alaska Senator Ted Stevens probably remembers when it really was a series of tubes. Here’s a nice bit of nostalgia for those of us who can remember the thrill of the whoosh!

(Thanks to Stewart Wills’ Twitter feed for the pointer.)

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About Kent Anderson

I am the CEO/Publisher of the Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery, Inc. Prior to this, I was an executive at the New England Journal of Medicine. I also was Director of Medical Journals at the American Academy of Pediatrics.

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