Fantastic video. Even just the sound of Theseus's operation is fun to hear. "This is a bank of relays: telephone relays." On a tangential note: just the other

Fantastic video. Even just the sound of Theseus's operation is fun to hear. "This is a bank of relays: telephone relays." On a tangential note: just the other day I was having a conversation with a friend who felt that "phone" was an inaccurate and perhaps inappropriately diminutive term for the pocket computers that so many people carry now. I argued contrarily from a language-evolution standpoint, but if I were to find myself in a similar discussion again I think I might instead point toward what a tremendous role telephone systems and the people like Shannon who built them played in the development of what we now call computers. Smartphones are descendants of telephones but they're equally descendants of telephone systems.