today we might wonder what has samuel morris wrought. we have personal phones and other devices and almost continuous trail of electronic data that information can be scored who knows where analyzeed by who knows whom and who knows what purpose. >> we learned how our government is tapping into a lot of that data phone records e-mails and web postings often provided by individu video companies. it may have you thinking should i be creeped out or comforted? this hour we will try to sort some of it out for you. we begin with a visit to my home in atlanta. >> nice to meet you. >> nice to meet you, too. >> go on in. in a prior life frank ahern in new york city made a living as a private investigator who don't want to be found. he used the proverbial paper trail which back in the day was literally made of paper, phone bills, credit cards, receipts and so son. he agreed to come to my home to follow me around to see how today's paperless paper trail makes it almost impossible to hide. >> just woke up, had a cup of coffee, pulled out the last dat

in business history.e this stay playback in 1840, samuel morris received a patent for the telegraph.ed morris $30,000 to make a telegraph line. by 1914 a message could be sent -- since using morse code. the original code contained dots and dashes as well as spaces and five letters. today the original telegraph and its patent application of part of the national museum of american history at the smithsonian in washington. it was today, june 20th of the telegraph was patented 173 years ago. we will be right back with my "2 cents more" in our answer to the question of the day, would you pay $50 just to see a movie? you can get my answer. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] if you can't stand the hea get off the test track. g the mercedes-benz you've been burning for at the summer event, going on now at yo authorized mercedes-benz dealer. hurry, before this opportunity cools off. otherworldly things. but there are some things i've never seen before. this ge jet engine can understand 5,000 data sample per second. which is good for busine. becse planes use less fuel, spend less time on the ground

[laughter] one of the founders was samuel f. b morris, from the morris code. he was a portrait painter, down on dc on commission to paint when he heard his wife in connecticut was ill. by the time he got there, she had died. he thought there has got to be a faster way to communicate information and news so he, among other people, worked on the telegraph, and he did not invent the telegraph, but one of the guys working on it and invented morse code. that's another sort of odd village legacy. there were cheap rooming houses where young art itions, intellectuals and others afforded to live. from the beginning, micking culture and money generally do not go together in america. you know, madonna makes a ton of money, everybody else makes none, and so artests and writers, ect., need cheap places to live and work and the village provided that, and, also, there was cheap places to eat in the later 1800s, there's french bistros, and anything french was bohemian because of the persian connections. t.j. woodhouse, who lived there, wrote a song about 1912, somewhere in th