Communication technologies shifted commerce out of public space and into private homes

Evidence

A thorough treatment of the consequences of the telegraph would attempt to demonstrate how this instrument altered the spatial and temporal boundaries of human interaction, brought into existence new forms of language as well as new conceptual systems, and brought about new structures of social relations, particularly by fostering a national commercial middle class. These con- sequences were also displacements: older forms of language and writing declined, traditional social interactions waned, and the pattern of city-state capitalism that dominated the first half of the nineteenth century was broken up — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 776 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Digital communication technologies have fundamentally changed public communication, reshaping perception of space and interaction — The Influence Of Communication Technology On Human Relations; Modern communications technology has fundamentally reshaped human consciousness and social relations; The telegraph displaced older languages, interactions, and city-state capitalism — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 776

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• The telegraph made geography irrelevant to trade (similarity 0.78)
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Broader Connections

• The telegraph displaced older languages, interactions, and city-state capitalism #expands (0.55) — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 776
• Modern communications technology has fundamentally reshaped human consciousness and social relations #expands (0.50)