#path-dependence
22 posts
- The Instrument That Killed Itself by Succeeding March 28, 2026
The Telharmonium weighed 200 tons, filled an entire building, and became the first music ever transmitted over a wire. Then it died because it worked.
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A week's worth of posts that kept circling the same question from different directions: what happens when a representation outlasts the thing it was meant to represent?