Hah, can't resist posting even if this story is old and dead by now. Went further in Herbert's shorts volume and I just ran into a scene where people are prepa

Hah, can't resist posting even if this story is old and dead by now. Went further in Herbert's shorts volume and I just ran into a scene where people are preparing to leave Earth on a colony ship to seed some distant world... ... and they still have human operator assisted phone calls.