Girdling the Earth

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 32, 21 February 1930, Page 1

Girdling the Earth

A New Era ITH the establishment of a regular wireless telephone service between England and Australia, another stage in that unceasing process of annihilating space which is characteristic of our time has been passed. This development is an event of extraordinary interest and importance, for it is obvious that present methods of interzourse will undergo a revolutionary change when people are able to talk to one another from the remotest places on the earth as easily as if they were in the same room, And this is what the new development implies. Sooner or later, wherever there is a telephone, it will be possible to communicate without hindrance or loss of time with any portion of the globe. It is evident that we are at the commencement of a new era in international communication. The wireless telephone service which will link the farthest corners of the earth by speech will before long present them visually to each other. It is almost impossible to imagine the world without telephones. Business has changed fundamentally through their use, and the present age is coming more and more under the sway of personal intercourse. The extension of wireless telephony, with its at present barely guessed possibilities, will undoubtedly turn what is at present almost a novelty into a normal procedure. It is producing a faster and smaller world; and there seems at least a hope that it will produce a better one.