Vector

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In epidemiology, a vector is the particular
means by which a given pathogen travels from one
population to another. Water is a vector for
cholera, bodily fluids for HIV. By extension, a
vector may be any means by which information
moves. Telegraph, telephone, television,
telecommunications: these terms name not just
particular vectors, but a general abstract capacity
that they bring into the world and expand. All are
forms of telesthesia, or perception at a distance.
A given media vector has certain fixed properties
of speed, bandwidth, scope and scale, but may be
deployed anywhere, at least in principle. The
uneven development of the vector is political and
economic, not technical.

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