Critical communication
Dietmar Gollnick on the importance of staying in touch when it really matters
Do you remember how it used to be? Very early, around 1850, the railway was invented. A new means of travel enabling ‘word of mouth’ communication between people in extended areas. A means of communication that requires extensive infrastructure. In the late Twenties, it was thought that this could be done more efficiently and without expensive infrastructure: simply travel by airship. But in May 1937 the devastating accident of the Zeppelin off Long Island, New York, reinforced the need for . . .