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Roger L. Costello scripsit:
> In the early 1900's there was a prediction that with the tremendous
> increase in telephone usage it would soon come to the point where every
> man, woman, and child would have to become a telephone operator! Of
> course, that didn't happen. Why? Because the telephone switch was
> invented, which (mostly) obviated the need for telephone operators.
Another reading on this is that every man, woman, and child has indeed become
a telephone operator: we now connect calls ourselves, though not with
plugboards.
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