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Today, after concluding some business in the mall, I went over to the AT&T store, where I found (as I suspected) that they could not sell me a telephone.
Oh, they had any number of fine handheld computers on offer, any one of which could keep my calendar and appointment book and list of personal contacts, take pictures and record video, play games and, almost as an afterthought, transmit the sound of my voice by a wireless connection to the global information network. But they had not one of, say, these in stock.
(It was, of course, Bell Labs that invented the transistor some 65 years ago.)
Oh, they had any number of fine handheld computers on offer, any one of which could keep my calendar and appointment book and list of personal contacts, take pictures and record video, play games and, almost as an afterthought, transmit the sound of my voice by a wireless connection to the global information network. But they had not one of, say, these in stock.
(It was, of course, Bell Labs that invented the transistor some 65 years ago.)
