media today: a history of intimacy

the remote control

the joystick

the computer mouse

the mobile phone

first steps: the remote control (1950s)

a long time coming: the joystick (1960s)

the computer mouse (1970s)

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and… the mobile phone (1980s)

no more mobile “phones”

no more news “paper”

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