And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads. <\/i><\/p>\n
\u2014Rev. 13:16<\/i><\/p>\n
717<\/b> World Getting Smaller<\/b><\/p>\n
The globe is shrinking at an accelerated pace, often in ways unheard of before. Now, a major event becomes a global television spectacular. Ideas, styles, and fads speed around the world, across once-formidable barriers, and almost instantaneously. Thus, Soviet gymnast Olga Korbut was virtually crowned the world\u2019s sweetheart by her feats relayed over television. <\/p>\n
Satellites are presently doing mechanical and routine jobs in the communications field. They relay transoceanic phone calls, check the weather, study air and water pollution, provide secret military surveillance, and transmit television programs around the world. <\/p>\n
718<\/b> The Intelsat<\/b><\/p>\n
Perhaps the best known satellite transmission set-up is the Intelsat, run by the privately-owned Communications Satellite Corporation (COMSAT) of 91 individual nations. <\/p>\n
Inaugurated in 1965, it provides over 60 countries with everything from TV and phone calls to computer data and weather reports. With 4,000 simultaneous circuits in each of its 7 orbiting satellites, voice and data transmission, as well as television link-up, are possible around the world. <\/p>\n
719<\/b> Mailgrams From Space<\/b><\/p>\n
It is now possible to send your mail via satellite! It is called Mailgram\u2014a cross between a letter and a telegram. You can dictate the message by phone to any local Western Union office. The message is bounced off satellites circling above, retyped into letters, and delivered in the next morning\u2019s mail. A half million Mailgrams now go out every week in the United States. Each letter costs about half that of a person-to-person call but is still costlier than a first-class letter. <\/p>\n
720<\/b> \u201cMrs. James In China\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n
The manager of a department store in Wolverhampton, England, wrote a note of commendation to Gwen James, saleswoman at the china counter. He put the note into an envelope and addressed it to \u201cMrs. James in China.\u201d Two months and 10,000 miles later she received the message. It had traveled all the way to China, was postmarked Peking and marked \u201cReturn to Sender.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Iris Hartman<\/p>\n
721<\/b> Neither Snow Nor Rain<\/b><\/p>\n
\u201cNeither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.\u201d That is how Herodotus, the Greek historian, described the Persian postal system of 500 B.C. <\/p>\n
They tell a story about the time former Postmaster General Winton Blount sat in on a brainstorming session on the problems of mail delivery. \u201cI\u2019ve been listening patiently now for three hours,\u201d Blount finally said in exasperation, \u201cand all I want is a simple answer to a simple question: If it is neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night that is holding up the mail, then just what is the trouble?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Congressional Record<\/i><\/p>\n
722<\/b> Custom\u2019s Postal Service<\/b><\/p>\n
The crew of a German tanker used an unusual depository for their outgoing mail. <\/p>\n
The tanker Hong Kong<\/i> sailed near Honolulu but didn\u2019t dock, officials say. So the seamen put their letters in a can attached to a wooden buoy. <\/p>\n
A US customs patrol boat found the buoy, brought it ashore and found\u2014in addition to the mail\u2014$25 to cover postage and a reward for the finder\u2019s trouble: a carton of cigarettes and a bottle of whisky. <\/p>\n
The letters were in the mail the same afternoon, officials said. <\/p>\n
\u2014Associated Press<\/p>\n
723<\/b> Chopping Up Your Voice<\/b><\/p>\n
It is today possible to reach nearly 250 countries and territories from almost any phone in America. Twenty nations can be direct-dialed without operator assistance. This number will double in five years. <\/p>\n
Seventy percent of the long-distance-circuit miles in the Bell System are no longer telephone lines. Signals are relayed from city to city by a network of microwave towers. <\/p>\n
Voices no longer travel through private circuits when you make a telephone call. They are chopped up, converted to digital pulses the computer can digest, and then squeezed through existing routes with thousands of other voice signals. At the other end,. the computer separates all the pieces, puts them back together again, and out comes a voice. This is called \u201cpulse-code modulation.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014U. S. News & World Report <\/i><\/p>\n
724<\/b> Speaking Via Light Rays<\/b><\/p>\n
The next major transformation of global communications will be in the area of \u201cfiber optics.\u201d It is the transmitting of voices, television and computer data on beams of light. <\/p>\n
Bell Laboratories scientists say that 4,000 simultaneous telephone conversations can be carried on a single beam. By feeding the beam into glass tubing as fine as human hair, hundreds of thousands of phone calls can be carried in a bundle of glass strands no bigger around than a pencil. Laser light will be the medium of transmission, possibly replacing copper wire altogether. <\/p>\n
725<\/b> Global Emergency Number<\/b><\/p>\n
The American Telephone and Telegraph Company is establishing a globe-girdling emergency number\u2014911. Anyone, anywhere, anytime may dial 911 and receive help. The call will go to a central switchboard. From there it will go instantly to the service needed; a physician, hospital, Red Cross, the fire or police department. <\/p>\n
726<\/b> All Roads Lead To Rome<\/b><\/p>\n
An Italian immigrant staying in a Winnipeg hotel was eager to try all the modern conveniences, so he dialed room service to order a sandwich. The hotel switchboard operator did not understand what he wanted so she switched him to a Winnipeg operator, giving her his room number for charges. The Winnipeg operator assumed he wanted to call home and connected him to an overseas operator in Montreal who, not understanding Italian, transferred the call to Rome. When the Rome operator asked the man what he wanted, the reply was \u201ca toasted pepperoni sandwich with lettuce and a Coke.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Weekend Magazine<\/i><\/p>\n
727<\/b> French Laundry On Hot Line<\/b><\/p>\n
Early one morning President Kennedy was in his bedroom when a special, top-secret telephone began to ring. A direct line between the president and the strategic air force bomber and missile commands, the phone was to be used only in the event of impending attack. Kennedy, expecting the worst, picked up the receiver. <\/p>\n
\u201cThis is the president,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
There was a pause. <\/p>\n
\u201cI must have the wrong number,\u201d came the startled voice at the other end. \u201cI\u2019m trying to reach a French laundry.\u201d<\/p>\n
White House communications experts swarmed over the equipment for several weeks, but could never discover where the call had come from, or how it had wound up on that vital telephone line. <\/p>\n
\u2014Life Magazine<\/i><\/p>\n
728<\/b> What If<\/b><\/p>\n
If the telephone company still had to depend on the old manually operated system instead of the dial phones, there would not be enough women between the ages 18 and 40 in all of the United States to perform the job now required by telephone traffic. <\/p>\n
\u2014Neal O Hara<\/p>\n
See also:<\/b> Technology ; Television ; Rev 1:7; 13:8. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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