Side note: you are not the first to dream of this, there is even a word; ansible. Wikipedia tells me that Le Guin coined it for this purpose, I personally first

Side note: you are not the first to dream of this, there is even a word; ansible. Wikipedia tells me that Le Guin coined it for this purpose, I personally first ran into it in the Enders Game quartet. Good question by the way, I appreciated the responses it generated.