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The Wireless First World War

On instant information and slippery slopes

Dec 06, 2021
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Let us imagine the outbreak of the Great War as a series of signaling episodes, a play in three acts.

Information does not necessarily lead to action. Indeed, high volumes of information can also account for inaction. In the middle of the “July Crisis,” when all of Europe teetered on the brink of apocalypse, the new prime minister of France was unable to…

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