Dreams Rewired

DREAMS REWIRED traces the desires and anxieties of today's hyper-connected world back more than a hundred years, when telephone, film and television were new. As revolutionary then as contemporary social media is today, early electric media sparked a fervent utopianism in the public imagination - promising total communication, the annihilation of distance, an end to war. But then, too, there were fears over the erosion of privacy, security, morality. (dreamsrewired.com)