Design for the Real World: Telephone Ring
Multimedia artist and designer Ben Rubin explains the origin of something we hear everyday — the telephone ring.
View ArticleDesign for the Real World: Telephone Ring
The multimedia artist and designer Ben Rubin explains the origin of an everyday sound — the telephone ring.(Originally aired: May 16, 2002)
View ArticleTim Wu on the Rise and Fall of Information Empires
It's a debate that's been around for as long as the Internet has been around: How do we keep the information superhighway open and beneficial for the public in a world that seems increasingly driven by...
View ArticleNew NYPL Feature Allows Access to 1940 NYC Telephone Books
The New York Public Library is introducing a new research tool to help track down past city residents through old telephone directories. The release of this new feature coincides with the first-ever...
View ArticleLeave a Message at the Beep
From the melodious inflections of phone messages, listen to a number of works sourcing voicemails, most from tape(!) on this New Sounds program. Hear Irish composer Roger Doyle’s “Memento Mori,”...
View ArticleLeave a Message at the Beep (Special Podcast)
From the melodious inflections of phone messages, listen to a number of works sourcing voicemails, most from tape(!) on this New Sounds program. Hear Irish composer Roger Doyle’s “Memento Mori,”...
View ArticleVerizon Looks to Cut the Copper Wire
Verizon is hoping to pilot a new phone system that doesn’t rely on costly copper wiring in areas ravaged by Hurricane Sandy. Under a plan currently before regulators the telecommunications giant would...
View ArticleLeave a Message at the Beep
From the melodious inflections of phone messages, listen to a number of works sourcing voicemails, most from tape(!) on this New Sounds program. Hear Irish composer Roger Doyle’s “Memento Mori,”...
View ArticleNew NYPL Feature Allows Access to 1940 NYC Telephone Books
The New York Public Library is introducing a new research tool to help track down past city residents through old telephone directories. The release of this new feature coincides with the first-ever...
View ArticleLeave a Message at the Beep
From the melodious inflections of phone messages, listen to a number of works sourcing voicemails, most from tape(!) on this New Sounds program. Hear Irish composer Roger Doyle’s “Memento Mori,”...
View Article145- Octothorpe
If you want to follow conversation threads relating to this show on social media—whether Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram, Tumblr—you know to look for the hashtag: #99pi. In our current digital age, the...
View ArticleLeave a Message at the Beep
From the melodious inflections of phone messages, listen to a number of works sourcing voicemails, most from tape(!) on this New Sounds program. Hear Irish composer Roger Doyle’s “Memento Mori,”...
View ArticleFive Things You Had to See Online This Week
This week in “Thanks, Internet” — An epic movie phone tree, Eleanor Roosevelt's booty call, the unseen power of grammar, an otherworldly Elton John cover, and a Rottweiler's self-evaluation win the...
View ArticleSnap #810 - Legacy
On the next all-NEW Snap ..."Legacy." You get up every morning and go through the motions, but do you ever stop to wonder what you're leaving behind?
View ArticleEnd of the line for the landline
The death of the old-style phone may help us individually but it loosens the bonds between us, says Lucy Kellaway The death of the old-style phone may help us individually but it loosens the bonds...
View ArticleUps and downs of taking the stairs
If people used the stairs, we would be deprived of the office equivalent of behind the bike shed, says Lucy Kellaway If people used the stairs, we would be deprived of the office equivalent of behind...
View ArticleChinese Robocalls Are Bombarding New York
Chances are good that if you live or work in New York City, you've received a robocall in Mandarin. "I get them also," said Officer Donald McCaffrey of the Queens Grand Larceny Division. "I have an...
View ArticleLoons that Shoot for the Moon
Loonshot (n): a neglected project, widely dismissed, its champion written off as unhinged We all know of moonshots, a grand idea we can get behind. But we sat down with Safi Bahcall, a physicist and...
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