Victorian visions of the future
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Victorian Science Technology and the Victorians
There's this amazing cartoon in your book from Punch Magazine of two Victorian parents sat in armchairs watching essentially what is kind of like a live stream. They're essentially imagining a video stream, aren't they? That's what it would seem to be to us. Now, as you just said, the parents are there at home, the telechoscopers there over the mantelpiece and their children are out in the colonies at the edges of empire. This is all part of a thoroughly imperial culture.
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