"It will soon be possible, for instance, for a business man in New York to dictate instructions and have the appear instantly in type in London or elsewhere. He

"It will soon be possible, for instance, for a business man in New York to dictate instructions and have the appear instantly in type in London or elsewhere. He will be able to cal up from his desk and talk with any telephone subscriber in the world. It will only be necessary to carry an inexpensive instrument not bigger than a watch, which will enable its bearer to hear anywhere on sea or land for distances of thousands of miles." The passage you quoted predicted broadcast radio, but the passage before that sounds more like a telephone to me. As with many others it underestimated the difficulty of transcribing voice into print, but otherwise....