Exponencial. De analógicos a digitales

Exhibition at the Espacio Fundación Telefónica in Madrid tracing how telecommunications, from the telegraph to artificial intelligence, have transformed everyday life and people's relationship with technology.

The route offers a look at the growing weight of telecommunications in everyday life, organised around three ideas: speaking, living and imagining. It starts with the first telephones of the nineteenth century and reaches as far as the internet, mobile telephony and artificial intelligence, paying attention to the social change brought by each innovation and to the personal stories that accompany it.

The common thread is technology as a driving force of progress in everyday life and how society has adapted to that revolution over the last century. The exhibition also traces the evolution of Telefónica itself, from its foundation to the rollout of landline telephony in Spain, the arrival of the mobile phone, internet television and the move from copper to optical fibre.

The exhibition brings together eighty objects from the company's historical technological heritage, alongside audiovisual pieces, nine interactive installations, infographics and documentary material. It is an offering for those who want to see up close how the media have changed and what each technical leap has meant for everyday life.