Camera-memorized workers thrashing at a switchboard, patching though calls from the  mort  of the future. Among them is (are)  Ella , a slow but certain genius who understands the potentialities of hybridity in the construction of those systems necessary to connect us with those we love. She has nothing to do with the operation of Big Ben, however.     Cet été-là à Londres, la compagnie du télégraphe avait commencé à se moderniser.