Talks

Rick Prelinger

Bay Area Telecommunications Infrastructure History

Recorded live on Jun 16, 02015

at The Interval at Long Now

Rick Prelinger uncovers the diverse histories of Bay Area telecommunications infrastructure: telephone, radio, television, data, image and sound. A tour of technologies, dead and flourishing, that overlay, underlay and penetrate us all.

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bio

Rick Prelinger is the founder and co-principal of the Prelinger Archives in San Francisco, whose moving image holdings may be found online at www.archive.org. With Megan Prelinger, he co-founded Prelinger Library, a publicly-available collection of historical periodicals, books, print ephemera, maps and government documents.

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