Leaving the Telegraph Era: How Generative AI Is Rewiring Us for Whole Thoughts Again

There’s a ghost in our digital infrastructure—an old one. Most people don’t recognize it, but it’s there every time we type a search query like we’re sending a flare into the void.

Short. Clipped. Mechanical.

It’s the ghost of the telegraph.

That 19th-century machine changed how we thought about communication. Messages no longer required presence. Meaning …