A Study in Techno Scarlet

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People will believe anything--facts be damned. In this, the age of information, there are more conspiracies than the truth. We see people crying fake news at anything they don't agree with. People believe the Earth is flat, that President Obama is a Reptilian alien, they believe that we never landed on the moon, and the list goes on. All it takes for someone to believe something is for someone else to believe it too. With the invent of the radio, mass conspiracy and disbelief became more commonplace than ever before. One of the first true radio hoaxes was Orson Welles radio play of The War of The Worlds. In October of 1938, during the prime time for radio broadcasting, a play designed to sound like a news report terrified the nation. Because the play sounded like it was real, some people on the east coast fled their homes in search of safety from what they thought was the end of the world and a Martian invasion. While many people knew it was fake, there were a few (no real record...

Communication is a staple of mankind. Through the ages, humans have discovered new and unique ways of communicating with each other. First, there were grunts and gestures, followed by spoken language--which, in turn, became written language--and eventually we found ways to hear and see each other via radio waves. It all leads us to this day and age, where we have the phenomena known as podcasting. As Andy Zaltzman said in his 2014 TEDxTalk: "[Podcasting] is really the only valid art form left on Earth. By which I mean that it is largely unsullied by money." But how did it get this way? Well, like most things these days, podcasting is a digitally enhanced version of an analog system that was made feasible because of the internet. A podcast is essentially a radio talk show that you can listen to and stream on demand--without having the constraints of time and location. The creation of podcasting is credited to Adam Curry and David Winer. Curry was a former MTV video jockey ...

Humans are nasty creatures. We kill, rape, destroy, and do all manner of uncivilized activities. While not everyone does these acts, everyone has a little bit of morbid fascination. This is evidenced by how many of us love to learn about killers and deviants. We love to learn about how they grew up and how they did the things they did, but more importantly, we love to cheer when they are sentenced to pay for their crimes. This is evidenced by how often in our history public trials and even public executions were some of the biggest events of the day. The Sixth Amendment gives the right to a speedy and public trial, with the intent to eliminate corruption in the judicial system and allow the public to act as a witness against the judge and jury. What the Founding Father's could not expect was the invention of photography, videography and invasive mass media. 1935 saw the first "Trial of the Century" when Bruno Hauptmann was tried for the kidnapping and murder of the Lind...