Few have the imagination to see what has been made possible, and to realize that an actual face-to-face conversation may take place, even though there be a thousand miles between.

Neither can it seem credible that a man in a distant city may be located as readily as though he were close at hand.

It is too amazing to be true, and possibly a new generation will have to arrive before it will be taken for granted and acted upon freely.

Ultimately, there can be no doubt that long-distance telephony will be regarded as a national asset of the highest value, for the reason that it can prevent so much of the enormous economic waste of travel.
Nothing that science can say will ever decrease the marvel of a long-distance conversation, and there may come in the future an Interpreter who will put it before our eyes in the form of a moving-picture.

He will enable us to follow the flying words in a talk from Boston to Denver.