The historical emphasis of AI has been on intellect rather than feeling. This reflects a historic injustice in Western thought to the role of emotions in human life that is replicated in AI. Rather than treating emotion as that which helps machines interact and adapt to context, place, people and situations, AI has typically been conceived in terms of ratiocination, disembodied cognition and utility. (McStay, Emotional AI, 2018)
Wendy Chun interrogates ‘dreams of global connectivity’ and the internet as frontier space
Vona Groarke’s poem ‘Away’ describes the transatlantic time gap of living ‘three thousand miles ago, five hours in the red’
A frenzy of online communication in Marianne Morris’s poem ‘Who Not to Speak To’
Macdonald Gill’s map for the UK Post Office map illustrates a network of two way voice connections
The All Red Line was an informal term for the telegraphy network that linked regions of the British Empire
Howe’s Adventures and Achievements of Americans illustrates the 1858 Atlantic Telegraph cable
Samantha Harvey’s novel muses on distorted time and a ‘swarm of satellites’ circling the earth
