Distance is No Longer a Barrier
Distance is no longer a barrier to connection.
I was reading something this morning, and it brought up the idea of long-distance calling.
You could make long-distance phone calls back in the day. Where I lived and grew up, we were right on the line between two different area codes. If I wanted to call some of my friends and they were in a different area code, or “long-distance,” I couldn't call them because it costs money. It didn't cost money to call local.
Well, I found out that Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas A. Watson completed the first long-distance phone call from the US to Europe, and it took them 23 minutes just to connect that call to all the different operators.
23 minutes.
It used to cost exorbitant amounts of money to make long-distance phone calls. Now, you can FaceTime with anyone around the world that doesn't cost you a thing other than your data which is usually a built-in cost. There's no incremental cost for long-distance.
Distance is no longer a barrier to connection.
I talked to a friend earlier this morning, and we caught up 2,000 miles away through a phone call.
Distance is no longer a barrier for connection.
Just remember that.
