As I am still musing about the proliferation of puny-sized personal Pods and phones, I came across a description of radio when it was first introduced. People were obviously having difficulty understanding how it worked and the eminent Albert Einstein came up with a very scientific and, if I do say so myself, reasonable explanation: You see, wire telegraph is a kind of very, very long cat. You put his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? Well, radio operates in exactly the same way. You send signals here and they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat! Too bad, since often the sounds emanating from the cat are far more pleasing than those heard on the radio. Can you believe we have come so far in the ability to miniaturize our communication? Come to think of it, the cat is one of our smaller animal friends. Was Einstein right? What do you think??
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