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Microphone

By Ralph Jones, Ian Bogost (Editor), Christopher Schaberg (Editor)
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By Ralph Jones, Ian Bogost (Editor), Christopher Schaberg (Editor)
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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

Since its invention more than 150 years ago, the microphone transformed the world in an instant. Yet its evolution and integration into our daily lives has been comparatively gradual – so gradual, crucially, that it is easy to forget just how much we take it for granted. Every phone has a microphone. Every laptop has a microphone. We are surrounded by microphones.

The microphone wields e...

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