<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi again SIGCIS - please see below, forwarded with permission via Peggy Kidwell - <br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><div dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><b class="">From:</b><span class=""> </span>Baker, Alexi <<a href="mailto:alexi.baker@yale.edu" class="">alexi.baker@yale.edu</a>><br class=""><b class="">Sent:</b><span class=""> </span>Wednesday, October 13, 2021 2:14 PM<br class=""><b class="">To:</b><span class=""> </span><a href="mailto:rete@maillist.ox.ac.uk" class="">rete@maillist.ox.ac.uk</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><<a href="mailto:rete@maillist.ox.ac.uk" class="">rete@maillist.ox.ac.uk</a>><br class=""><b class="">Subject:</b><span class=""> </span>[rete] History of telecommunications / mobile phones</font><div style="margin: 0px;" class=""> </div></div><div dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><div style="margin: 0px;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">This is perhaps going a bit far afield in the history of technology, but I have a student who is interested in the history of mobile phones with respect to science fiction. She is in particular interested in how the development of such telecommunications influenced, was represented in, and was influenced by science fiction films. Do any of you happen to know of historians who have focused on the development of mobile phones and/or on the relationship between sci fi and technology in general?</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Many thanks for any suggestions - Alexi </div><div style="margin: 0px;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px;" class=""><div dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, EmojiFont, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", NotoColorEmoji, "Segoe UI Symbol", "Android Emoji", EmojiSymbols;" class=""><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: YaleNew, serif, EmojiFont; color: rgb(31, 56, 100);" class="">Dr. Alexi Baker</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: YaleNew, serif, EmojiFont; color: rgb(31, 56, 100);" class="">Division of the History of Science & Technology<br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: YaleNew, serif, EmojiFont; color: rgb(31, 56, 100);" class="">Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: YaleNew, serif, EmojiFont; color: rgb(31, 56, 100);" class="">Tel. 203-737-3084</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: YaleNew, serif, EmojiFont; color: rgb(31, 56, 100);" class=""><a href="mailto:alexi.baker@yale.edu" class="">alexi.baker@yale.edu</a></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>