Today we live in a world, where the technology is always developing and it has the right to do. In 1876, Graham Bell invented the first telephone, which was a kind of kick-start to the technological development. Inventions such as the internet have emerged. These inventions gave people different communication options. In the past, the distance and was a major problem, but not anymore. At that time, his invention was not been accepted yet and his invention was been criticized for being "pointless". We get this impression in the very first line. "Of what use is such an invention?"
This essay includes an analysis and comments of the text "Time and Distance Overcome", written by Eula Biss in 2008.
Many people would probably believe that the invention of the telephone at that time was a huge advantage and that it would benefit the people, but it was the quite opposite. The telephone became sort of a plaything for the wealthy people, but then "A Boston banker paid for a private line between his office and his home so that he could let his family know exactly when he would be home for dinner". Then the telephone poles came, and in 1889, New York Times reported that the "War on Telephone Poles" had begun. Telephone companies started to erect telephone poles in front of people’s home, but the homeowners quickly sawed them down. A judge in the court "found that a man who had cut down a pole because it was "obnoxious" was not guilty of malicious mischief". The people were not fascinated about the idea of the poles and that was the reason why the people moved away, to get rid of them. This conflict lasted for several years and it ended up, with people now used the poles to hang people up with, especially black people. "From the middle of the nineteenth century to the middle twentieth century black men were lynched for crimes real and imagined, for "disputing with a white man", for "unpopularity", for "asking a white woman in marriage", for "pepping in a window."
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