Dead Media Show

I once saw Bruce Sterling put on the "Dead Media Show" at a 1990s SXSW. His message: Don't be too in love with our glass boxes (1990s clunky monitors). There have been plenty of mediums which have come and gone. The telegraph is the best example. But Joseph Faber's talking head with a segmented wooden tongue operated by something like piano keys was the strangest example. BS said that after Faber gave up on his invention (or maybe died) it ended up in the hands of a carnival which toured with it, but no one but Faber was skilled enough at his little system to actually make the head speak intelligently so at the carnival the operators just made the head scream a bunch on nonsense.