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A narrow signal beam cuts through the C/E region of the huge red SPACE while a small phone sits beneath the curved earth.

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Late Night with Conan O’Brien — Louis C.K. technology interview (2008)

Spoken by Louis C.K.

Late Night with Conan O’Brien — Louis C.K. technology interview (2008) — Cell-phone impatience passage

“IT'S GOING TO SPACE!”

Satellite beam

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The artwork

In Late Night with Conan O’Brien — Louis C.K. technology interview (2008), Louis C.K. rebukes impatience with mobile technology by pointing to the extraordinary journey behind an ordinary delay.

The scene

Late Night with Conan O’Brien — Louis C.K. technology interview (2008) — Cell-phone impatience passage

Louis contrasts complaints about slow mobile communication with the extraordinary technology carrying a signal into space. He tells impatient users to give the signal time to return. This is a comic rebuke of entitlement, not a factual engineering diagram of every phone call.

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40.6 × 61 cm
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Unframed print
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Enhanced matte paper
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