A couple of years ago, I was talking on the phone with my Mum. Nothing so unusual about that, you might think (unless you’re thinking that was the last time I talked to her, in which case I assure you I’m not quite that feckless) – except that she was sitting at home in the UK, and I was standing in the middle of a field in rural New Zealand, chatting to her on my mobile phone.
What’s quite awe-inspiring about this, when you think about it, is that people who emigrated to New Zealand in the 1960s will tell you that you that they were effectively cut off from the family they left behind in Britain; letters could take weeks or months to arrive, and telegrams were short and too expensive for most. Step forward 40 years, and I was able to travel in their footsteps to the opposite side of the globe, and still engage in a real-time conversation with the folks back home. Such are the scale, and pace, of the changes wrought by satellite technology.
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