I thought some of you might appreciate this picture. The man on the left is my Dad. They are examining a new piece of telephone switching equipment in the 1950's. I don't know what it is called, but I'll bet the modern version of this machine is about the size of a postage stamp.

Communication has changed a lot in just the last 100 years. We have had telegraphs, rotary dials, party lines, radio phones, touchtone phones, pagers, fax machines, the internet, cell phones, and smart phones. The methods of communication have changed, but has the content? Do we really say more than we used to? Has the value of what we say gone up?

Marsha