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"When words fly, propelled by electricity, distance is relative between those who speak over the telephone or write telegraphs and facilitates much quicker their message than we are used to, with this many things that were impossible or to hard, will be much easier. […] Telegraphs and telephones are not here to create peace on earth but war, not privacy but disturbance, not peace and quiet, but hardness and activeness, more frequent vasculature, susceptible nerves, daring minds."

Those were the words of Hannes Hafstein, former minister, in 1906 during the inauguration of the …